That is the idea... The Ancients wrote and spoke on these ways (in a certain historical period, at least), precisely by the power of the aphorism: an invitation to "digest" (well spoken by you) and understand something important.
This is an invitation to think about (and seriously) and then to conclude on the relevance (or not) of the aphorism. The previous text was only a set of clues about a warning and/or advice that the Ancients said.
In my childhood I had a special contact with the Fables of Aesop, in a truly shocking way: it helped me in many concepts and perspectives for various life situations.
However, my greatest astonishment was to know many years later, that Aristotle himself already mentioned the fabulist in his wisdom, including devoting part of his argumentative studies (Ars Rhetorica) to the capacity of the old fabulist's examples. What a corroboration and approval, is not it?
It's never too late to "revisit" the classics (including Aesop), but I am afraid any warnings to politicians are almost always fruitless...
A phenomenon has happened (at least in my country, Brazil) in the last ten years: while the use of the Internet grew, this word became more "popular." Thus, first in the social network and later in daily use.
However, it has also become commonplace to express in other words something like "I do not like this/that", looking like an impoverishment of the language since these speakers do not seem to demonstrate a true "hatred" for somebody or something, but only disapproval and disagreement.
If it would be a cybernetic fact with more visible voices and opinions (or merely a simple metalinguistic expression), an impoverishment of the Portuguese language "pari passu" among other external factors (such as poor educational quality in my country etc.), I would not know how to say, but the fact is that has become commonplace and continues to expand (in any environment). But all this, it is my empirical observation (and limitedly) about my country.
About the situation of true haters, I can not speak properly (not yet). However, they have appeared more here in Brazil, especially stimulated by some political parties with their empty rhetoric filled with "argumentum ad populum" in a serious (and real/concrete) environment of political and economic difficulties, unfortunately.
And of course, being here in the International CS, I can not know properly other cultures how far/deep the expression means in their daily lives, from the idiosyncratic approach to the collective social layer (though there are innumerable clues anywhere).
Personally speaking, this displeases me because the word always holds more than a formal meaning, even in the face of the growing confusion of the expression (with "I do not like/agree", at least in Brazil) among other terribly negative senses (even destructive). In general I agree with the previous opinions mentioned here (energy/focus, suspicion and the elephant in the room etc).
As @miclee has said, "good blog", @socrates (also good nickname surely :-)
About this Klingon blog, it is a good "enterprise" in fact, Mr. Map! Maybe a "new frontier" :-) Once, I thought about on these fun things, but a Sindarin blog hehe. (conlangs/conscripts are very interesting too)
Unfortunately my time is too short to elaborate something cool at these times/days...
Time ago I worked for many years as ecoturism guide and speleist guide here in Brazil, in São Paulo & Minas Gerais states especially (big cores of South America): it was/is a big adventure not only for an understanding and knowledge (and research surely) of unexpected places of Nature (beauty, admiration), but sport (many kind of challenges), education and pedagogical formation (levels of conscience) of people. The caves are a truely journey into the time, a rich universe to be explored, learnt and "tasted"...
Philosophos Blog Comments (5)
RE: What is the best life advice you would give?
That is the idea...The Ancients wrote and spoke on these ways (in a certain historical period, at least), precisely by the power of the aphorism: an invitation to "digest" (well spoken by you) and understand something important.
This is an invitation to think about (and seriously) and then to conclude on the relevance (or not) of the aphorism.
The previous text was only a set of clues about a warning and/or advice that the Ancients said.
I hope you (better saying, we) enjoy it!