The Man and his Forum

Tales of the Socratic Future : I

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Greek philosopher, Socrates, may have been the man to originate the idea that human thoughts can accurately represent the experience of the world and the creative endeavour. It spawned the concept of the human initiative as the foundation of human  will.

 

The concept has raised several new perceptions of the potential future of man in the world. It tugs at the hem of some of the world's greatest literatures and scriptures and proposes to add to it the appeals of a living individual today and his infantile mumbling.

 

Prior to the Greek civilization, thinkers elsewhere had dreamt of such an achievement, however the entrenched nature of their societies had prevented anything new being put in place. The Dorians, as a group in the Greek experience are reported to originate from the then Asia Minor. Quite possibly they may have represented the initiative to take the emerging new ideas elsewhere. The illustration is similar to the American experience in the new world.

 

The ideas found a fertile ground in the islands of the Aegean Seas. After several false starts involving Minoans, Argos, Thespians, Sparta, Troy and the experiences of Nike, they may have finally found a place for the evolution of the human imperative in the Kingly view of God's almighty kingdom. This brought to the world's experience, the Forum, a place for man to share his sapling thoughts of creation with his fellow man.

 

It introduced the ideas of democracy to the world, which inspired the French initiative to take the guillotine to the previous practice of unique and unquestioning Kingly will. The effect on other thinkers was to persuade a disregard for the dream of mythical oneness that sometimes comes across on the galleon of doubt as delusion. The new initiative promises a greater factual nature by viewing it under the microscope of science and reporting on the oneness as man the individual, society as world and God as the universal experience.

 

We continue to work at it and bring whatever little achievement to share with others. As an individual voice, it dodges the entrenched notions that continue to be important for child raising and social decorum. Socrates was less fortunate. In the words of the poem about Icarus, he may have flown too close to the sun too soon.

 

The style we evolve in the new expressions of our personal integrity may well save our own life someday, if not from the all-serving justice of entrenched views, it would save us from the fatalities of poor health.