Lets bring on the intellectuals

Socrates, the great philospoher, was a fool. Of course opinions will differ here, and for once I don't mind admitting to be open to listening to other opinions.

Read that again: Admitting to be open to listening. I always listen, always absorb, only I pretend to be staunch with my opinions and beliefs.

The truth is, you convince me, you floor me.

I'll say it again: Socrates, the first intellectual in the world, was a fool.

It must have taken him a lot of hard work, a lot of negative retorts, a lot of abuses, yet, a helluva lot of persistence to actually reach a stage where people started listening to him, believing in his words, in his preachings, in his beliefs.

He won people with his thinking. He was a great thinker.

But in my (humble) opinion, I think he tried to become, or rather acquire the status of, some sort of god.

It is pretty much celebrated, this line that he spoke at the fag end of his shortened-by-humans life. Today, he is adored for what he said back then: "At the end of it all, the only thing I know is that I know nothing."

What??????!!!!

Come on brother, you got people looking up to you, following what you think and say almost blindly because it's you saying it. And suddenly one day you stand up and shout out that you know absolutely nothing!!!!!

If you're talking so much, you better know what you're talking about.

Socrates was condemned to die. Of course, the major reason given was the fact that "he was leading the youth away from the accepted path."

Instead of fleeing or pleading for mercy, Socrates drank hemlock (poison) and died.

That apart, I'd condemn him to death for just saying that line.

Maybe people didn't understand what he really wanted to say. Maybe he wanted to say that unless you say and believe you don't know, can you want to know more and more, because there's always more to know.

But you can't say it like the way you said it. Everyone's not a philosopher. If there's something you want to say to normal humans, say it clearly, say it simply.

Of course they'll kill you. They obviously took it as all this while he was bullshitting, and what he preached really he himself had absolutely no idea about.

It's like today, Jesus showing himself to us, Jesus, Ram, Krishna... whoever it is you believe in, and screaming out that he was bullshitting us and actually he worshipped the devil himself and that we should forget everything he's taught us. everything we've believed in for centuries!

What do you do?