Online discussion groups
"There's a particular phenomenon that crops up during discussions, Gorgias, and you've experienced so many of them, like me, that I'm sure you've noticed it. People find it difficult to agree on exactly what it is they're trying to talk about, and this makes it hard for them to learn from one another and so bring their converstations to a mutally satisfactory conclusion. What happens instead, when two people are arguing about something, is that one person tells the other that he's wrong or has expressed himself obscurely, and then they get angry and each thinks that his own point of view is being maliciously misrepresented by the other person, and they start trying to win the argument rather than look into the issue they set out to discuss. Sometimes the argument finally breaks up in an apppalling state, with people hurling abuse and saying the kinds of things to each other which can only make the bystanders cross at themselves for having thought these people worth listening to."
Socrates, from Plato's Gorgias 475c
The Pagan History Tribe
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The Julian Society Yahoo group
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The Neoplatonic Fellowship Yahoo group
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