Status Updates From Aristotle's Politics

yes, tyranny bad. it doesn't help and end in bloodshed. but that's not why tyrants become tyrants. and if tyrants were granted foresight, they would only try to protect themselves more, not be less decadent and self-indulgent.

I feel like i made a lot of good progress today, however I fear that I cannot tell you much about any of it. There was a lot I had to go back and forth with given people/places/structures referenced by name rather than in concept. He used more stories to explain his points this time around, but if I'm being honest, it hurt more than it helped this time around.

Getting to the meat of policy decisions. There was a line about penalties failing to attend gymnasia that put a lot of this back into perspective. I know there were other things earlier that were 'of the times', but it's not like sexism/racism/literally any form of othering isn't around today.