With this month's audible credit, I got a collection of the classics.

It's something like fifty different books of the "you read these all in high school but probably don't remember them well" variety. The first two are the Art of War and the Tao Te Ching, that kind of thing.

The third is The Republic, which I recently had reread anyway, and I've gotta say... intellectual thought may hold a debt to Plato for it, primarily for promotion of the Socratic method. But the "character" of Socrates doesn't practice the Socratic method particularly well here.

The statements he provides immediately cause one to think of a whole range of objections, but he never addresses them. He straight up asks for and invites debate. But instead of pushing back on anything of substance, Glaucon just does his Lil Jon hype man thing. "True", "Certainly", "Clearly", "That seems obvious", "Of course", Glaucon repeats, over and over, to things one should raise plenty of objections to.

I disagree strongly with many of Socrates' conclusions in the Republic, but he's someone I feel I would get along with. Glaucon, however, is a worthless and annoying lil bitch.