Tip-Off #74 - Politics and the Good Life
“The small without the great are no secure defense of a city’s wall: the weak will be best kept safe with the aid of the strong, and the great by lesser men." - Sophocles, 5th c. BCE.
(Sophocles concluded the preceding statement sounding exasperated: "But it is impossible to make a stupid person understand these principles until it is too late.”)
Sophocles' tragic play, Antigone, shatters the monotony of arguments about politics and polarization.
Amid the riots and protests of th…
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