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Plato is Bernin' (Original Post) Octafish Mar 2016 OP
omg stealing!!!!!! wendylaroux Mar 2016 #1
Please share good ideas. Octafish Mar 2016 #10
Excellent quote Hydra Mar 2016 #2
It's like a Fable, hearing about the concept. Octafish Mar 2016 #11
Great quote, nt. Broward Mar 2016 #3
We don't inherit the earth from our parents ... Martin Eden Mar 2016 #4
Love this whatchamacallit Mar 2016 #5
And the other side would be something like, "we will leave you a planet to clean up. Fracking rhett o rick Mar 2016 #6
Seems like our society's proverb is more like: valerief Mar 2016 #7
Bernie marched with Plato? JaneyVee Mar 2016 #8
I knew we could count on Camp Weathervane to come shit up the thread. Lizzie Poppet Mar 2016 #12
Not Plato, but I like it. Vattel Mar 2016 #9
Plato was dear. senz Mar 2016 #13

Octafish

(55,745 posts)
11. It's like a Fable, hearing about the concept.
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 05:45 PM
Mar 2016

Seems so alien, for those living in a world paved by greed and shaped by war.

 

rhett o rick

(55,981 posts)
6. And the other side would be something like, "we will leave you a planet to clean up. Fracking
Mon Mar 21, 2016, 07:42 PM
Mar 2016

for profits uber alles."

valerief

(53,235 posts)
7. Seems like our society's proverb is more like:
Mon Mar 21, 2016, 07:44 PM
Mar 2016

[font color="green" size="5" face="serif"]A society grows great when old men blow up mountain tops and unleash untold volumes of toxics from which they will never suffer.[/font]

 

Lizzie Poppet

(10,164 posts)
12. I knew we could count on Camp Weathervane to come shit up the thread.
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 05:49 PM
Mar 2016

Thanks for living down to my expectations.

 

senz

(11,945 posts)
13. Plato was dear.
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 05:52 PM
Mar 2016

I don't think he was a big fan of democracy, though. But he was cool in his own way.

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