His story reminds me a little of Benjamin Lay, a writer and activist in the early-to-mid 1700’s who had ideas that were way ahead of his time, and was personal friends with American founding fathers like Ben Franklin, and didn’t shy away from telling them to their faces about the evils of slavery. He also refused to use animal products or ride a horse because he was (what we would understand today as) vegan and anti-animal cruelty.
Anyone seen as radical in their own time is going to be written into the history as an asshole to some degree.
This is such a banal response. If this is the thought that came to your mind, why would you waste anyone else’s time or mental energy by writing it down?
I’m sure it seemed that way to his peers.
His story reminds me a little of Benjamin Lay, a writer and activist in the early-to-mid 1700’s who had ideas that were way ahead of his time, and was personal friends with American founding fathers like Ben Franklin, and didn’t shy away from telling them to their faces about the evils of slavery. He also refused to use animal products or ride a horse because he was (what we would understand today as) vegan and anti-animal cruelty.
Anyone seen as radical in their own time is going to be written into the history as an asshole to some degree.
But Diogenes made a point of pissing off anyone and everyone.
Its an important legacy. Kaufman lived that life. Hunter S. Thompson. Anthony Bourdain.
To truly live the the things you claim to believe.
Perhaps the world finds them insufferable because their light highlights our own inadequacy or inability to truly live our beliefs…
And why would “living your beliefs” be a good thing? All beliefs are ultimately just theories.
This is such a banal response. If this is the thought that came to your mind, why would you waste anyone else’s time or mental energy by writing it down?
Uh huh. How’s that: Hitler was living his beliefs too.
Eh not really. They had integrity. Hitler was frequently a hypocrite.