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Plato Says A Multitude Can Never Philosophize And Hence Can Never Recognize The Seriousness Of Philosophy Or Who Really Philosophizes. Attempting To Influence The Multitude Results In Forced Prostitution.

There Is No Real Education That Does Not Respond To Felt Need; Anything Else Acquired Is Trifling Display.

Locke Had Illegitimately Selected Those Parts Of Man He Needed For His Social Contract And Suppressed All The Rest, A Theoretically Unsatisfactory Procedure And A Practically Costly One. The Bourgeois Is The Measure Of The Price Paid, He Who Most Of All Cannot Afford To Look To His Real Self, Who Denies The Existence Of The Thinly Boarded-over Basement In Him, Who Is Most Made Over For The Purposes Of A Society That Does Not Even Promise Him Perfection Or Salvation But Merely Buys Him Off.

In America We Have Only The Bourgeoisie, And The Love Of The Heroic Is One Of The Few Counterpoises Available To Us. In Us The Contempt For The Heroic Is Only An Extension Of The Perversion Of The Democratic Principle That Denies Greatness And Wants Everyone To Feel Comfortable In His Skin Without Having To Suffer Unpleasant Comparisons. Students Have Not The Slightest Notion Of What An Achievement It Is To Free Oneself From Public Guidance And Find Resources For Guidance Within Oneself.

I Am Now Even More Persuaded Of The Urgent Need To Study Why Socrates Was Accused. The Dislike Of Philosophy Is Perennial, And The Seeds Of The Condemnation Of Socrates Are Present At All Times, Not In The Bosoms Of Pleasure-seekers, Who Don't Give A Damn, But In Those Of High-minded And Idealistic Persons Who Do Not Want To Submit Their Aspirations To Examination.