Grrl Power #395 – The benefits of a classical education
The original (translated) quote from Plutarch’s Tranquility of the Mind, in case you were wondering;
“Such contentedness and change of view in regard to every kind of life does the infusion of reason bring about. When Alexander heard from Anaxarchus of the infinite number of worlds, he wept, and when his friends asked him what was the matter, he replied, ‘Is it not a matter for tears that, when the number of worlds is infinite, I have not conquered one?'”
Even so, there’s some debate as to the origins of the misquote, but for our purposes, Hans gets credit.
You can see why I wanted to combine this page with the prior one, as it’s an extension that same argument. And as C.C. points out, a lot of it is semantic games. Is this all gospel for Deus, or is he playing the sound bite game and being contentious on purpose? If so, then C.C.’s not rising to it, but maybe he’s hoping for viral traction. In any case, you guys had plenty of opinions on the prior page, and while Deus is certainly being reductionist, I do think greed is a prime motivator. Greed and lust certainly. That or I watch entirely too many crime procedurals while I draw, cause seriously, I can’t think of a single case in any of those that wasn’t ultimately motivated by greed, lust, or a combination of the two, unless the bad guy is simply crazy and is killing people because that’s just what he do.
I’m slightly upset that C.C.’s necklace has gone from looking like a piece of hand worked gold or brass to a piece of cheese, or possibly Spongebob Hexpants. I may have to fix that at some point. That or the next time we see her she’ll be wearing a starfish necklace. Actually probably that.
Not combining the pages gave me time to get the vote incentive finished finally, and I did some corrections to the book cover and inked it (original pencils here) and I started coloring the Valentines Day vote incentive, so hopefully that will be ready on time as well. All in all a pretty productive week. Sydney and crew returns on Thursday!
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I wonder about the language meaning that the ‘root of all evil’ line was translated from. Buddhist teaching is that want for material gain leads to deeper immersion in it, to the neglect of spiritual enlightenment. But the sutras still predicted a future in which meeting material needs would be necessary for the pursuit of spiritual enlightenment to be feasible. Back then Siddhartha himself begged for enough to subsist first, then continue his meditations and teachings. Now? I wouldn’t know, I’ve never begged and never trusted a beggar’s testimony to ask one how it provides for their material needs.
Well, the line is from 1 Timothy 6:10. That’s New Testament, so the original language was Greek. Wikipedia says on the line:
> The original Koine Greek reads, ῥίζα γὰρ πάντων τῶν κακῶν ἐστιν ἡ φιλαργυρία (Rhiza gar pantōn tōn kakōn estin hē philargyria) — “root for all kinds of evil is the love of money.”
In case you were curious.
The verse actually states that the love of money is the root if all KINDS of evil, it does not state that all evil stems from money, or even the love of money, but that due to the love of money all kinds of evil have been committed, this fine but important distinction is often ignored when people want to make a point about greed, also the biblical context of the verse is talking about people following Christ because they believe that it will bring them financial gain, and historic context states that there were people pretending to be preachers and messengers from other churches to get money, food, and lodgins, so this is a warning against such greedy people as much as it is a warning against greed itself
If you get the chance, watch a series called “Connections”. It’s a science/history docuseries created, written, and presented by science historian James Burke. Traces how one thing led to another which led to another, and shows the chains of events or inventions that produced some aspect of the modern world. IIRC in the first episode, he traced how the discovery of a type of rock that can be used to test the purity of a piece of gold led to the atomic bomb. It goes really well with Machina’s greed rant.
i am half expecting deus to start going “Argh, argh, argh” or say, “Money! Money! Money!”
and make a best selling burger. cause he’s been channeling Mr.Krabs in this page and the last one