The weather warmed and dried up a bit today, so I went outside to gather up the long-needle pine limbs that had come crashing to earth with the accumulation of ice on them night before last. In this case, instead of being the Vine Dresser of John 15, the Lord was the Pine Messer of Camp Cornelius.
I was listening to the Glenn Beck program for a bit as I gathered the limbs...an unusual thing in and of itself...while he talked about Americans, truth, and how we can still reform the country without revolution. Well, I was picking up some hemlock branches, too, and Socrates' death by poison hemlock came to mind, since Ole Socco was an agitator against Athenian democracy in his day, according to various accounts. Glenn Beck is going against the mainstream thinking, it would appear, in our American democracy; which is taking a decided turn to the Left and socialism on January 20, 2009.
Socrates made his living, if in deed he earned one, by talking. Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and other conservative talk show hosts talk their way to the bank. Wonder if American democracy will adversely affect them in the not too distant future?
Oh, yeah...part of the Socratic Method is asking a bunch of questions about whatever subject is on hand...much the way radio talk show hosts work. Socrates was around when Athens was going down hill....hmmm...perhaps I see a parallel?
Got hemlock trees?
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