Plato was right about poets
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Essentially, Plato's criticism should be taken in his historical context. He didn't have any hostility to literature or poetry but merely the appropriation of them by the Athenian society, very much like how we troll the appropriation of art by gallery art world.
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I like that he says the reason poets should be curated is not because the are bad but because they are too good, and so all the reason for them being unsuitable for education. So I wonder if uncurated poets live secretly on the outskirts of the republic
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so when they use "poets" they really refer to poets and not """"""""writers"""""""" in general? clearly i havent been reading my plato too much hahaha
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You see the term poet at that time means a lot of things, actual poet, a playwright and a writer. He specifically means the second in the context of play-poems which distort reality like propagandas and eulogies for tyrants.
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Actually PlaguePod#41 reminded me a lot of Symposium, the setup, the truck horn, the acephalic daimon. Difficult to decide who played Alcibiades, but you sounded massively as a post-1973 Socrates. Ah, that classy line: no oil/no civilisation/cannibal squads coming to your house.
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