Democracy in Silos

The Athenian mob executed poor old Socrates for being an irritating contrarian. Glaucon, Adeimantus, Timaeus, Phaedrus, et al. were sick of having to answer endless questions about universal truth every time they left the house. I get it.

That’s a thought that pops into my head when I watch a nonconformist being swarmed by haters on Twitter. The mob is anti-intellectual, incurious, and authoritarian. Twitter is the mob.