3 Excerpts on a Struggle unchanged throughout History

Excerpt from Russell's views with my {thoughts} thrown in:

He tells (as Plato also does) how Socrates was continually occupied with the problem of getting competent men into positions of power ~ Russell

{This then led to these accusations which then led to his death sentence}

Socrates is an evil-doer and a curious person, searching into things under the earth and above the heaven; and making the worse appear the better cause, and teaching all this to others ~ The filed complaint

{making the worse appear the better is a specialty of Socialists, yet they get to live, but I digress}

The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways—I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows ~ Socrates

{and the Rulers were saved - hooray!}



Note: for the simple or weak minded, I am not advocating life or death in any of these writings.