It's time to time travel back again into the Golden Age of classical Greece during the sea change in human history about this time the greatest Minds in history begins to stir and a movement from China who is Taoism and Confucianism and Buddhism and Democracy in Athens and the founding of the Roman Republic and all this coming together in this Monumental era of recorded history, as if a veil was pulled back and a glimpse into what has become eventually the modern world began and at the center of all this in the world was in Athens Greece and the primary character we remember from that time was Socrates a men of little distinction and never wrote anything, that has ever come down to us and never sculptured anything famous as a stone worker as his father was and as he encouraged people to continue in the trades they were raised or born in and obviously for perfection reasons and in his View of the perfect Republic he advocated to stay in one's professional trade in a intergenerational way and somewhat resembling a caste system and yet not really for he was an advocate of freedom of speech and freedom of thought and freedom of vocation ultimately and believe that the perfect Republic according to Plato's writing of Socrates and his symposium discourses around food and wine as philosophers gathered together to eat and drink enjoy life and discuss philosophy traditionally at this time an era and obviously with the exception of Dialogines the Cynic who took his philosophy to the streets and to a ground level and to a level that every misfortunate man can I identify with with his antics and demonstrability and after this. Stoicism and Epicuruism and the Atomic School of philosophy and the discovery that the Earth revolved around the Sun happened by the 3rd and 4th Century BC and for beginning around the 5th Century BC, we have according to Aristotle the greatest [playwright] that ever lived in ancient Greece lived and the father of medicine Hippocrates and the father of History Herodias and although Democracy in Ancient Athens died shortly after Socrates unjust sentence of death and execution it was replaced by 30 tyrants imposed by the Spartans who conquered Athens at the end of the Peloponnesian War of which lasted a horrible 26 years and of whom Socrates wasn't not only a decorated hero and half light of the television War and was noted for carrying is wounded comrade off the battlefield on his back and under dire himself and as yet he was a firm and I work activist and believing and saying that this war and this endless war so to speak must come to him and he was of course accused of being on patriotic and weakening the hands of the Athenians who by now had walled themselves in all the way to the port city of pirates and with no exitary egress and only the ships could come in with supplies of which brought to plague of which finally decimated Athens and weakened it to the point of collapse to the Spartans and after the imposition of the rule by the 30 tyrants even the Spartans realize it this was not a good form of government and relented back to allowing the Athenians to practice their form of democracy again and even though it only existed since around 500 BC along with the Roman Republic being founded also approximately the same time when the mesodonians finally drove out to Spartans and a lesser more watered down form of democracy came into being an all toll democracy lasted only a couple and while ironically the Roman Republic that eventually dominated grease in the world lasted well over twice as long and never really died and became the standard of all Democratic Republicans worldwide and even to this day and there's never been a Democracy since in Athens and it's death could be officially attributed, after a hundred years of Athenian Democracy to The Death of Socrates and what followed for another 100 years was more diluted and eventually evaporated in the history and there is never been a democracy like that in history again until our present day and the push back to the first hundred years of the birth of Greek democracy in Athens and the question anyone would ask is this good and is history repeating itself and will it end in the death of freedom of speech but if it did around 400 BC
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