What made the war inevitable was the growth of Athenian power and the fear which this caused in Sparta.
You make learning fun. Like a children’s book or after school special. Tell me about your…um, Athenian women.
Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.
In the end, more than freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all – security, comfort, and freedom. When the Athenians finally wanted not to give to society but for society to give to them, when the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.
Ares always reemerges from the chaos. It will never go away. Athenian civilization defends itself from the forces of Ares with metis, or technology. Technology is built on science. Science is like the alchemists' uroburos, continually eating its own tail. The process of science doesn't work unless young scientists have the freedom to attack and tear down old dogmas, to engage in an ongoing Titanomachia. Science flourishes where art and free speech flourish.
Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
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