Diogenes hours
Diogenes hours
Diogenes hours
Explanation: Diogenes was an Ancient Greek philosopher who lived in an empty wine barrel on the streets and passed along unconventional wisdom to passers-by, often unasked for. Such brilliance as "If only it were as easy to banish hunger by rubbing my belly!" when accosted for masturbating in public, and "Behold, a man!" whilst holding a plucked chicken, when Plato's Academy defined a man as a featherless biped.
Unironically, though, his iconoclasm, while eccentric, does show a well-considered and coherent value system, and for that reason, despite everything, was a major influence on later philosophers, especially the Cynic school. Alexander the Great famously said, "If I were not Alexander, I would want to be Diogenes." to which according to some accounts Diogenes replied, "If I were not Diogenes, I too would want to be Diogenes."
I don't see anything you could call a success in that unless you want to be Diogenes, because Diogenes was indeed successful in being Diogenes.
Doing whatever the fuck you want all day, jacking off when you feel like it and trolling plato with a chicken sounds like a pretty successful life to me.
Important to note that many Diogenes stories are long after the man died, and there’s some mythologizing with him.
Here’s a fun story though:
"There is no place to spit in a rich man's house but his face" is one of my personal favorites.
Dogs!
I just wanted to say that he had dogs around him, that's all
This was the take home message I got as well.
success is subjective
Me: Fuck, I'm at three dogs and eyeing another two, I'm gonna need a bigger barrel.
I am GenZ Diogenes
Hum... My guess is if we could make houses out of money, they would be much cheaper.