Comment on It is crazy how Whitewashed the practice of roman slavery has become
Schmoo@slrpnk.net 21 hours agoI’ll see if I can find a source for that and get back to you. I could be misremembering.
Comment on It is crazy how Whitewashed the practice of roman slavery has become
Schmoo@slrpnk.net 21 hours agoI’ll see if I can find a source for that and get back to you. I could be misremembering.
PugJesus@piefed.social 21 hours ago
No worries if you can’t. It’s just that Diogenes is, in general, very much on the side of “Fuck all human institutions, and fuck your hierarchies in particular” in most of the reliable accounts of his life and philosophy. “There is nowhere to spit in a rich man’s house except his face”, and all that. Or “If my slave can live without me, why can I not live without my slave?” when questioned, earlier in life, even before he became a homeless philosopher, why he didn’t make any effort to catch the slave who ran away from him.