Phaedo Part ё

 Phaedo

Bonus: I have exhausted my meme supply.

Summary: Soul, body, changeable, blah, blah.

Commentary: It's just a repetition of the previous page(s)!

Phaedo Part ٦

 Phaedo

Bonus:

I am currently in a Zoom. We'll see which is more interesting. 

Summary: BUT THE SOUL IS UNSEEN AND THE UNSEEN IS UNCHANGING!

Commentary: That's u+666

I did, in fact, have to pay attention to my Zoom. Read slightly more Phaedo. Still bad.

Phaedo: Part ⍨

Phaedo

Bonus: 

This is now a Robert Rodriguez meme series.

Summary: Some places are big.

Commentary:

Hellas, he replied, is a large place,

"Hell is a large place" is the title of my anime about a Demon Bounty Hunter. It's just Yu Yu Trigun.

 

"The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson (1948)

"The Lottery"

Bonus: Live fake horse racing!

Summary: Rock flies, somebody dies. 

Commentary: This story sucks, and it has sucked everytime I read it since middle school. It has three issues.

 1. Shirley Jackson's prose is like nails on a chalkboard. "the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green." Get the fuck out of here. That reads like it was written by a middle schooler.

2. It's opaque and contradictory in, I assume, an intentional way, but it's just annoying.

3. Tessie is the least interesting/likable character in the story. I wouldn't go so far as to say I want her to get stoned to death, but she's not much above that. 

The story of how Frankenstein was written is just 1800s Epstein shit.

 Girl with Daddy issues gets groomed by older guy, taken to secluded location, winds up pregnant, he also bangs her step-sister, no one knows who some of the kids' dads are, suspicious adoptions, all while the poors starve from climate change.

"The Uses of Poverty: The Poor Pay All" by Herbert Gans (1971)

 "The Uses of Poverty: The Poor Pay All" by Herbert Gans (1971)

Bonus: 

Actual footage of Herbert Gans

Summary: The poor are the GRIST IN THE MILL OF SOCIETY!

Commentary:   

Read one of his other articles for school and looked him up. Apparently this is his most famous. It contains the excellent:

Alternatives for the cultural functions of the poor could be found more easily and
cheaply. Indeed, entertainers, hippies, and adolescents are already serving as the deviants needed to uphold traditional morality and as devotees of orgies to "staff" the fantasies of vicarious participation.

Phaedo Part ☘

Phaedo

 Bonus: 

Better than Phaedo

Summary: Souls=ideas=reincarnation

Commentary: 

Then may we not say, Simmias, that if, as we are always repeating, there is an absolute beauty, and goodness, and an absolute essence of all things; and if to this, which is now discovered to have existed in our former state, we refer all our sensations, and with this compare them, finding these ideas to be pre-existent and our inborn possession—then our souls must have had a prior existence, but if not, there would be no force in the argument? There is the same proof that these ideas must have existed before we were born, as that our souls existed before we were born; and if not the ideas, then not the souls.

FUCKING WORLD OF FORMS!