“The families that made mad cash from manufacturing weapons for war were amongst those who indicted and executed Socrates. Their claim against him was blasphemy; essentially, a dangerous disregard for the dogmatic ‘public faces’ of The Gods. So, effectively, a bunch of pimps, warmongers, political whores and tyrants decided that a guy who just hung around talking with people was a deadly enemy who had to be either ejected or destroyed. Kind of ironic that they charged him with blasphemy. It’s fairly obvious that if he was incapable of anything it was this; rather, he was unfond of lying or the wearing of costumes that demonstrated forgeries of absent relation as present divinity. This, of course, was and remains the fashion of the polis, and thus his blasphemy was authenticity. By maintaining a true position of relation with the orders of men and the Divine, he established and sustained a position against which forgeries could not stand. We have heard this story before. Indeed, our world can be seen as its endless repetition.”

— an anonymous informant