It’s Complicated: The Relationship Between Freedom and Democracy, According to the Greeks

[@cosmo9287]

Excellent speaker and presenter.

[@TheTalkWatcher]

Although the speech is good. I cannot help but think philosophy is dead. Especially in the sense in which it was practiced by the ancients. For them it was a quest for enlightenment seeking deep mystical insights into the nature of the world and man's place in that world. It had the power of a religious movement on adherents. Today, academic philosophy is nothing more than a speech and debate forensics society. It is dry, austere and boring. The last philosopher of any significance was Marx and he worked outside of the academy. The academy is nothing more than a graveyard. A place where old philosophers are eulogized daily by PHD's in lecture hall.

[@lukestevenson6465]

I'm with Aristotle, democracy is not so democratic. It is used to monopolize and benefit a negligible few. There can be no freedom of choice in a political institution that is enforced. The democracy has created a nation of slaves, I must participate and work for that institution, for if i stand there too long I am loitering and if I pick an apple it belongs to someone. It's beneficial to a minority, not to mankind or we would have created a different type of world, not a world where political institution is driving us progressively in the direction of destroying every living thing on this planet. A great man once told me there is no democracy in England, there is no communism in Russia, and there is no spirituality in India. The political institutions are a mask behind which it hides it's true intention, the speeches are to serve their own agrandissement's, they may preach of peach and non violence, but all political institutions across the globe are enforced only through the instruments of violence and power. And this is the point, if they was any good you wouldn't have to enforce them.