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We are a contentious species, we bicker, at times dissemble, and at the same time speak of ethics and morality.   In classrooms, twenty-five hundred years later we regal Socrates as a great teacher, and forget he was condemned to death for teaching the youth of Athens to think critically (Socrates needed a union!). We justContinue reading ““We Exist in a Marketplace of Favors,” The World of Realpolitik”