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"How can you lead without courage?"

"As the philosopher Mary Midgley once suggested, philosophers are best understood as plumbers: when the plumbing stops working, we call a plumber; when concepts no longer seem to work within our social framework, that is when we turn to philosophy." —@boredcalliope via

"My early impression is that 'turning benches into men' has a memetic resonance that will damage the lyrical mode and how we read it."

      "V. S. R."

Justice is a stranger to the world,
   as am i:
Justice never was, & i
shall never be.

How is it such strangers came to lodge
   here in Time?
On the road to what, were we
when the storm fell?

Justice did not come with me
   nor i with it.
If we approach, we pass as strangers.
—Strangers, who don't want to meet.

"...this belief in the value of pursuing a reading program of the classics was largely a social construct – a fad that arose in the twentieth centur."