I wonder if future scholars will look back and consider the man on my street corner to be an influential thinker

  • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    The only reason we know about some of these guys is graffiti. I think all the Epictetus writings came from scrawlings on a fence in Turkey.

    • Shoegazer [he/him]
      hexagon
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      2 years ago

      The graffiti in question:

      Weep, you girls. My penis has given you up. Now it penetrates men's behinds.

      • 7bicycles [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        It's a shame the proletarian reactions to this sort of thing didn't make it into written history.

        How many people called Socrates a dumb asshole for his definition of man before Dionyses did the PR stunt with the chicken?