I hate this so much, I’m struggling to find the words. If this is sincere and not just deliberate rage bait that I’m falling for, then I really don’t fucking know. I genuienly don’t want to live on the same planet as the sort of person who unironically makes something like this and thinks it is something productive or interesting or honestly, even fun to do. Like, this is the “who could be who” superhero thing but for philosophers and “philosophers” this is the ultimate expression of internet debatebro culture, it is the peak of that absolutely empty, meaningless, pathetic kind of perspective on the world. I genuinely didn’t think I could hate an ultimately harmless idea as much as I hate this thing.
While Plato did do wrestling and was given his nickname for having broad shoulders, Socrates was accomplished as a soldier and it was the telling of the Apology by the mercenary-philosopher Xenophon that emphasized the value of flexing, consistent with his other writings. On this basis, I think Plato’s purported strength might be wank, since in reality he shied away from such things and his later legacy had people like Plotinus, who was said to be “ashamed to have a body”.
I don’t know as much about Marx’s cigar habits, but we could consider his drunkenness to be hax that wildly mitigates things like inhibition and increases his functional pain tolerance, though it has downsides too.
(Also the notoriously-illiterate powerscaling community usually calls the opposite of a feat an anti-feat)
I hate this so much, I’m struggling to find the words. If this is sincere and not just deliberate rage bait that I’m falling for, then I really don’t fucking know. I genuienly don’t want to live on the same planet as the sort of person who unironically makes something like this and thinks it is something productive or interesting or honestly, even fun to do. Like, this is the “who could be who” superhero thing but for philosophers and “philosophers” this is the ultimate expression of internet debatebro culture, it is the peak of that absolutely empty, meaningless, pathetic kind of perspective on the world. I genuinely didn’t think I could hate an ultimately harmless idea as much as I hate this thing.
Philosopher powerscaling. Socrates low diffed Parmenides, so we can chain scale to Zeno to conclude that Socrates solos the whole Eleatic school.
Where does platos flexing feat put him and is Marx’ cigar consumption a feat or whatever the opposite of that is called?
While Plato did do wrestling and was given his nickname for having broad shoulders, Socrates was accomplished as a soldier and it was the telling of the Apology by the mercenary-philosopher Xenophon that emphasized the value of flexing, consistent with his other writings. On this basis, I think Plato’s purported strength might be wank, since in reality he shied away from such things and his later legacy had people like Plotinus, who was said to be “ashamed to have a body”.
I don’t know as much about Marx’s cigar habits, but we could consider his drunkenness to be hax that wildly mitigates things like inhibition and increases his functional pain tolerance, though it has downsides too.
(Also the notoriously-illiterate powerscaling community usually calls the opposite of a feat an anti-feat)