What’s wrong with debasing currency? Fuck currency.
Reading how he came up is like watching Johnny Rotten advertise butter, if advertising butter was as bad as debasing currency
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OwOarchist@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
nagaram@startrek.website 3 weeks ago
To consider debasement of currency as bad I must first respect the concept of cash capital.
Therefore, Diogenes is based.
MalikMuaddibSoong@startrek.website 3 weeks ago
Diogenes on being hungry 👌
If only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate.
Sounds kinda based to me
youCanCallMeDragon@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago “The only place to spit in a rich man’s house is his face” - Diogenes
Pretty based if you ask me
Fedegenerate@fedinsfw.app 3 weeks ago
Also, 1500 years ago, destroyed every transpohbe’s “define a woman” nonesense.
Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 3 weeks ago It depends on the angle. Public masturbation? Let’s chill a little bit. Rich people? My guy. Yes.
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
It sure sounds extreme from a modern pov, but consider the context of the era.
People were much more tolerant of public nudity, atletes traditionally practised nude, brothels depicted images with sexual specialties like a shopping window and had curtains for doors. What Diogenes did was by all means scandalous but not that big of a deal nor a crime.
Diogenes philosophy was a direct call to return to nature, animals have no shame to have sex in public, so why should he? It be out of character to draw such unnatural line. There is the famous story of how he saw a slave drink from their hands and cursed himself for carrying a bowl all this time. The guy really practiced what he stood for.
Of course also worth considering, most that we know was writings of others in later times, we dont know how much is true and how much is rumour. Its just as likely he did so once to prove a point and it stuck.
Taleya@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
That’s a brilliant example of the sliding scale of personal morality. Ofhers would be horrified at spitting in faces
Diogenes doesn’t give a shit, unless it’s on stage
PugJesus@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Which Diogenes?
DahGangalang@infosec.pub 3 weeks ago
Diogenes of Sinope
PugJesus@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
I don’t remember him debasing currency + Diogenes was based 😎
itkovian@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Diogenes was based because he practiced what he preached.