To: Greg or e who wrote (1249 ) 12/29/2012 9:17:34 AM From: Solon Read Replies (1) | Respond to “That's why you immediately attacked her character as well as her qualifications” “Socrates had started out life as a badly abused child” because she did not think she ever could have recognized what Socrates was doing had she not “ experienced similar childhood miseries and found similar ways out ”You are a GOOF!! LOL! Enid Bloch on Socrates and his (and her) psychiatric problems --LOL!!?? What a LARK!! “…here was an argumentative, annoying, ugly little man” “As long as I could remember I had yearned for a baby, and now Plato, through the voice of Socrates, intended to rob me of my future child? And beyond that, to censor my every thought and action in a totally controlled society?” Enid Bloch “I slowly realized that Socrates had started out life as a badly abused child” Enid Bloch If as a child he had taken money for his services, even if forced to do so by his father, and then in adulthood had dared to cast a vote in the assembly, knowing he had been turned into a woman, he could lose not only his citizenship but his very life.” Enid Bloch “psycho-historians ” and introspective sickos using self-help Freudian analysis to understand their emotional disorders! “I do not think I ever could have recognized what Socrates was doing had I not experienced similar childhood miseries and found similar ways out. Fortunately I was not used for sex as a child, nor was I beaten, but some of the assaults on my emotions and my body were not so very different, and I too fled to a shimmering world of transcendent ideas”…”From that time forward I felt personally responsible, not just for my own actions, but for the very fate of the earth. I really thought it was up to me, a little kid, to save the world, and I had to do it by figuring out how societies and governments and the human psyche work . (LOL!!) By the sixth or seventh grade I had begun reading the New York Times every day and imagining myself President. It’s been quite a burden, I can tell you…” Enid Bloch (yes, I can imagine it has! For you and little Gweggy, both)! “But I also have spent much of my life struggling against these very same tendencies. That’s probably why I so detested Socrates when I first met him. We are always most angry at those people who openly display the very behaviour or desires we secretly are trying to suppress in ourselves. I hated Socrates’ need for aggressive argument, no doubt because I disdained the same need in myself.” Enid Bloch “Boys in Athens seem to have been quite vulnerable to sexual attack. Laws were passed to try to protect them” Enid Bloch
