Diogenes’ most vocal fans tend to have a “no veggies for dinner, no naptimes” sort of petty/selfish theoryless version of anarchist ideology going on in my experience, but I still really like that “in a rich person’s house there is no place to spit but the rich person’s face” line. A classic.
Darwin (before his name was dishonestly invoked for bourgeoisie-friendlier Spencer’s “Social Darwinism”) had the same observation: so-called nobles have no definitive biological differences to distinguish them from their so-called lessers. That scared the hell out of the ruling class of his day; the pretenses of heresy and all that were an afterthought.
Diogenes’ most vocal fans tend to have a “no veggies for dinner, no naptimes” sort of petty/selfish theoryless version of anarchist ideology going on in my experience, but I still really like that “in a rich person’s house there is no place to spit but the rich person’s face” line. A classic.
Or how about “I’m looking for the bones of your father, but I can’t seem to tell them from the bones of his slaves”?
Good choice!
Darwin (before his name was dishonestly invoked for bourgeoisie-friendlier Spencer’s “Social Darwinism”) had the same observation: so-called nobles have no definitive biological differences to distinguish them from their so-called lessers. That scared the hell out of the ruling class of his day; the pretenses of heresy and all that were an afterthought.