Fie Posted:

A fine upstanding member of society is a fine upstanding member of society is a fine upstanding member of society.

Well played, sir. Well played indeed. It is with great pleasure that I upvote your post.

Professor Commie PhD Posted:

This whole site brings to mind Plato’s Phaidros, where he elaborates on the Teuth myth, referring, of course, to spoken word.

Quite so, my good fellow. Quite so! For there could scarcely be more unequivocal an elucidation of the King’s observation than this particular series of tubes.

The King knew that the gift of Teuth (lovely choice on the Greek spelling there, old chum) would bring the mbumes not to knowledge but to ignorance. If anything, these Intertubes are the subsequent step in intensifying said ignorance such that without them we are helpless.