The Philosopher’s Spouse: What Socrates Got Right About the Movies
Cinema doesn’t keep returning to broken marriages because directors are pessimists. It returns because the bad marriage is the most efficient knowledge-production machine ever invented. “By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.” — Socrates (via Diogenes Laërtius, possibly apocryphal,…
