Comments on: Socrates finds 21st-century political thought shallow and confused.

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 19 Nov 2021 06:35:46 +0000

It makes more sense when you begin with the baseline assumption that “politics” is an increasingly geriatric muppet show increasingly halfheartedly staged by intelligence agencies and other occult groups as a kind of magician’s flourish meant to dazzle, confuse, and mystify.

By: Sam J.

Sam J. — Fri, 12 Nov 2021 07:54:54 +0000

Go Leonidas!

By: McChuck

McChuck — Thu, 11 Nov 2021 23:46:37 +0000

The proper argument is for Leonidas to shank Pericles, before Pericles has him declared outlaw for existing while opening the gates to invite the Persians in.

Politics is war by other means.

By: Harry Jones

Harry Jones — Thu, 11 Nov 2021 13:27:02 +0000

Existential Comics tries to do this, but not always this well.

I don’t think there can ever be meaningful dialogue between major ideological factions. The factions exist in the first place because there’s not enough common ground or common concept space to build on. The failure to see eye to eye is a mere symptom, not the core problem.

Politics is what you get when dialogue fails. War is what you get when politics fails.