Because there is a post about my husband going around again I would like to remind you all that there is a difference between “weaponized incompetence” and “rocks for brains disease”
For example:
“I know you are tired from work and from caring for the baby but I don’t know how to make dinner you are so much better at it I’ll just mess it up” - weaponized incompetence
“I know you are tired from work and from caring for the baby so I have made tortellini and vodka sauce and I thought we should have some protein so I make chicken nuggets and just put them in the pasta pot and also made broccoli and added that and I know there is only 2 and a half of us but I have accidentally made enough food for the entire neighborhood and I am sorry.” - rocks for brains disease
please take a guess which one my husband does in a regular basis
Plato makes up Atlantis as an allegory and over 2,000 years later people are still looking for it. You might as well be looking for Narnia.
Plato: Luxury and unlimited power are forces that corrupt human beings and lead them to being colonialist and stupid. The gods will punish Athens if we continue to exploit others for our own gain. I have invented this society as a parable to illustrate my point because I tend to use metaphor for a lot of things.
Everyone: But where are you hiding it though
Plato: I’ve purposefully included details like a mud shoal west of Iberia that doesn’t exist and references to a volcanic eruption that we all have cultural memory of as an obvious indication that I made this up. Are you paying attention? It’s a metaphor. I’m using literary references. You can go west of Iberia yourself. It’s not there. I explained where it is and it’s not there. You all know it’s not there. Please stop it with the luxury and exploitation. That’s my main point here.
Everyone: Yeah but where is it though
Plato: Orichalcum is just a fancy looking metal. It’s kinda like fancy copper. I made it up for this fake parable city.
Everyone: So it’s magic, then.
Plato: I want Athens to be a bit more like Sparta.
Everyone: Where’s the magic metal
Plato: I just think that greed is bad, generally. We should stop doing that.
so much love for characters who are desperately unsure whether they’re a good person, a redeemable person, a person worth saving, but are absolutely certain that they’re a grade a hottie
roman curse tablets for chariot races are so funny because they’re basically all variations of “cosmo wanda i wish every horse and charioteer on the red team went to hell no matter what”
