https://medium.com/ill-ixi-lli/i-have-heard-it-said-that-in-the-time-of-socrates-in-athens-there-existed-many-situations-5200a1d99c0a

“I HAVE HEARD IT SAID that in the time of Socrates, in Athens, there were many travails familiar to our modern circumstance, however novel they may appear in present guises. It was a time of crisis and sudden transformation, of propaganda and war — and the culture was struggling to survive its own birth in an atmosphere of lies, invective, and the currying of wealth, military force, public favor and economic or social power. A clusterfuck of conflicting imperatives, many of which were the ironic opposites of all they were presented as. These are matters with which we are all intimately familiar. As in ‘matters of the collective, the marketplace, the courtroom… the family, the mob’.”