“…it would be best to say nothing about it, or if it must be told, tell it to a select few under oath of secrecy, at a rite which required, to restrict it still further, the sacrifice not of a mere pig but of something large and difficult to get.”

- Plato, Republic

Philosophers, like most defined identities, are suspect to peculiar characteristics and shortcomings. Perhaps one of the more severe tendencies of the “thinkers” is to take themselves a little (far?) too seriously. Sometimes this is merely annoying, but occasionally an absurd profundity comes to the fore with a premise so ridiculous that shocked laughter can be the only response.

(I haven’t forgotten about the music)