Monday, June 12, 2006

Breezes off the

A passage into the changing construals of Utopia’s ultimate illusionists…
We begin this section with a compellingly introspective look at the way the world should or would have been, had the fragments of history fallen its way. These worlds harbour a vision that might just yet be realised. So, do read on and prepare...

I stand here in the courtyard of Cephalus, in ancient Greece, transported in time to Plato’s Republic of 390 BC, witnessing Socrates’ discourse on that cardinal virtue so much in scarcity today, justice. He theorises justice to represent “working at that, which is naturally best suited,” and “to do one’s own business and not to be a busybody,” and presents the ideal concept of society, where the ruler creates fair norms, the warrior executes these laws, and the producer accepts them sans discord. Socrates exiles poetry, music and dramatics, for these pervert the land and proliferate corruption, that vice among vices.

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