A thing I posted on the no-longer-bird app a few years ago. I feel like I keep encountering this phenomenon to this day:

Political teaching of Plato/Aristotle:

A city will not be set free from evils unless a Gray Soul (philosopher) learns to speak Gray Ideas (truth) in the form of Blue Language and/or Red Language (political rhetoric).

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would you say socrates ultimately failed at this?

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Depends on how you define failure

Socrates flagrantly challenged the city of Athens — esp in his own trial — by refusing to use rhetoric and subjecting politicians to philosophic challenge

His friend Xenophon argues that Soc purposefully incited death to prove to future cities that philosophers could be trusted