Of course, the intervening people have the same problem. Plus, the only cure for corruption is to not want anything. And the enlightened people, the ones who really don't want anything? Don't want power, either.
No one who wants to rule should be trusted. Basic fact. And no one who can become a ruler should ever be allowed to do the job. *He sighs.* Now me, I can take or leave power. I just want people to think a little. I'm a philosopher. I want people to think about more than money and sports and fashion. I want to reopen Plato's Academy, I want sports talk to be replaced by Socratic dialogues--I want to give civilization a good, ah, good shaking and see what happens, that's all.
Thank you! I see him as a good guy who took too close a look at society and snapped.
No one who wants to rule should be trusted. Basic fact. And no one who can become a ruler should ever be allowed to do the job. *He sighs.* Now me, I can take or leave power. I just want people to think a little. I'm a philosopher. I want people to think about more than money and sports and fashion. I want to reopen Plato's Academy, I want sports talk to be replaced by Socratic dialogues--I want to give civilization a good, ah, good shaking and see what happens, that's all.