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Product Description
This book is about answering the following question: what would the smartest person of all time know if he were living today in our postmodern, porno-preferrin’, politically corrected, projectile-vomit-inducing, classless, celebrity-worshippin’, no-mercy givin’, grossly under-medicated world?
And what wisdom could he impart to us today, to save us from many of our foolish expenditures of time, money, blood, sweat, tears, our sanity, and even our very lives?
Well, maybe not quite the kind of wisdom you’d think.
The reason for this can be found in the very nature of wisdom, in the very nature of Socrates himself. Socrates knew that knowledge, true knowledge was almost always the direct opposite of the popularly prevailing notions that are on offer within the general population at any given time.
Or as another brilliant thinker, poet Charles Bukowski said,
“Anybody that can see the opposite of what’s
going on, I think is exceptional.
Any place you go, if you see 50 people standing
in one line and 4 people standing in another,
you know which line to get into, dontcha
baby?
The masses are always wrong. Wisdom is doing
everything the crowd does not do.
All you do is reverse the totality of their
learning and you have the heaven they’re
looking for.
It’s a basic wisdom, whichever way the crowd
goes, run the other direction.
Through centuries they’re always wrong and
they will always be wrong.”
