Solri's lamentable tendency toward physical violence

[robinturner]

Whenever I read Internet posts by wannabe Nietzscheans, neo-Nazis, Ayn Rand fetishists, the two people who voted for George Bush and so on about how the weak are a drain on the strong, free competition is the only way forward, aid to developing countries is immoral, and in general "I'm good and deserve to survive because I have good genes and a high credit rating", I just want to say -

"OK, if you're so fit to survive, let's test it. I bet your kneecaps break as easily as any of those welfare bums'."

Comments

[katminnaar.livejournal.com]

Passion a bad thing, huh? Or maybe misdirected passion?

I have a translated book on Marcus Aurelius titled "Meditations." He did seem to be much 'softer' than other emperors. He also said he thought there was a strong distinction between religion and philosophy... thought religion was mostly ceremonial and for the masses (to be handled by the clergy) and philosophy limited to those dedicated to higher intellectual thoughts and 'asking questions,' and that passage interests me greatly!

I'm sure SOME must have had a sense of humor, but that one documentary noted that humor in general was rather frowned upon. Maybe they didn't anyone laughing when someone got torn to pieces in the Colosseum!