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"Read lit" Me: (lemmy.ml)

submitted 5 months ago by UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml to c/greentext@lemmy.ml

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[–] onlooker@lemmy.ml 7 points 5 months ago (4 children)

I don't get this one. Is an intellectual supposed to read Socrates or something?

[–] TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 49 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Probably something to do with plato's account of socrates saying "I know that I know nothing" so by teachings of plato (and more broadly the teaching of socrates) you're an intellectual when you realize your own lack of knowledge, meaning by admitting to not being an intellectual OOP is actually in line with what he's reading?

Just a theory tho

[–] sloppysol@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

That’s a fun take

[–] onlooker@lemmy.ml 6 points 5 months ago

It's a good theory!

[–] EnArvy@feddit.nl 1 points 1 month ago

This is the agreed upon interpretation of the greentext every time it's reposted

[–] drolex@sopuli.xyz 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The fool tries to read Socrates' works.

The wise man writes Socrates' works and calls himself broad man.

[–] whaleross@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

You can call yourself a broad any time, man.

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

Nah Dylan Thomas and Jack Kerouac

[–] JamesBoeing737MAX@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 months ago

Or the poster is just a dick to black people.