I posted this here because I had posted it elsewhere and I personally thought it to be funny and interesting. On a deeper level, one of my autistic obssessions lately has been the Hellenistic Intellectual Traditions. I feel like Ancient Greece was an unusually flourishing context for a plurality and originality of original truth seeking, and that many later authors who think Ancient Greeks to be antiquated have failed to contextualize and interpret correctly these older texts. In particular, the Ancient Greeks were fascinated by language and by words, and ... (read more)