Silent Book

“No book has ever been written that explains the way I think.” -FEM

How many of you have read a book by Socrates and have been so enamored by it that you read it over and over again, took many notes and spoke long winded about it to your friends? Of course you haven’t, Socrates never wrote a book. His words were wrought on and brought to us by his pupils. Did Socrates words spend a lot of time out of his head and were they misinterpreted? My guess is that his words spent a lot of time in many people’s heads but only one would stand out in those times as a sponge to the great thinker, Plato, teacher to Aristotle. This is really fascinating to me because I too have never written a book but yet I behave as though people know the way I think. I feel as though they always will. Like I am trapped in this simple truth mentality with all the things I’ve said rolling around inside my head as if that’s all I know. I mean I’m always responding to people like I need to have the last word, resonating up until there’s silence. I wonder if Plato thinks he had the last word against what Socrates said or vice versa. “I’ll show you,” they each thought as the other went trailing off into silence. But maybe Plato did have the last word. He eventually went home in his older years and wrote down what Socrates resonated. He had to because there was Aristotle. Talking for years with Socrates must’ve been laborious for Plato. He needed to take those truths and elaborate on them so Aristotle would know who came before him. When Aristotle asked about Socrates there was silence and Plato eventually showed the world what he knew.