Last night I was reading from "Plato's Dialogues," and this afternoon I hope you find the following passage as critically essential to today's political sphere as I did.
In Shorter Hippias -- a discussion of right actions with "wise man" Hippias of Elis -- Socrates comes to disagree with his own conclusion. He then summarizes, with no little melancholy:
As I was saying before, I am all over the place, and, being in perplexity, I am always changing my opinion. Now, that I or any ordinary man should wander in perplexity is not surprising; but if you wise men also wander, and we cannot come to you and put an end to our wandering, the matter begins to be serious both for us and for you.