Grokking Socrates

Catkiller’s kid puts pen to paper and produces the greatest English paper ever written:

Socrates, the great Greek Philosopher, asks too many obnoxious questions frequently; and Dwight, a hilarious character from the show called The Office on NBC does too; in fact they are a lot alike. They both ask weird questions, have similar behavioral quirks, and the way they do stuff gets them pranked or sentenced to Death!

Every time Socrates asks a question and somebody answers it he always asks for deeper meaning in the answer. For example in the Chapter of Phaedo, in the book called The Trial And Death Of Socrates, Socrates is talking about the immortality of the soul. He asks a man named Simmias if he thinks that the soul will live on after death, and Simmias replies with a simple “I don’t know”, and Socrates says,” Well, why don’t you know.” Dwight acts the same way, both Socrates and Dwight always ask more of everything, which probably got Socrates dead, and will get Dwight fired at some point…. the biggest quirk that Socrates and Dwight share is saying the word “why?” every five seconds. I mean it’s like living with a six-year old with Dwight and Socrates.

The forced suicide of Socrates is lamented by many would-be intellectuals, but those who actually know their Greek history are aware that Athens would have been much better off if they had had the foresight to execute him much sooner. Anyone who manages to produce a Critias, an Alcibiades and a Plato – a tyrant, a traitor and a theorist who provided the longest-standing, still-extant, intellectual justification for tyranny – is simply not someone you want wandering around teaching the children.