Feynman On Light

There are roughly similar stories told about some ancient philosopher who wandered around during the broad daylight holding a lighted lamp.

Diogenes of Sinope is usually the one described as the 'philosopher with the lamp,' and he is also of course, known as - Diogenes the Cynic.

Expensive martini in Lotte New York Palace.
They make it, and they have no idea
how seriously important what they are
sticking in there are, as ingredients.
Literally as medicinal ingredients.
Still, accidents happen, right.
Fortuitous accidents. 

But the account of why he did that was because he was wandering through the city market-place 'looking for a man;' by which he meant a 'real' man and not a wimp or someone susceptible to bribery and so on. So the usual sentence is that he was 'looking for an honest man' although the actual original texts don't say this: just that he was 'looking for a man.'

By certain other accounts it was Socrates who was seen bearing a lighted flame in the daylight, and when asked why, he said - 'because it is so dark here.'

Now this has a completely different meaning and all kinds of implications that the story about Diogenes doesn't have.

In fact most of the stories about Diogenes are pretty simplistic and he seems to have been a simplistic fellow, but nevertheless, his in-your-face attitude always finds its self-involved appeal in the minds of the other simpletons of the human race.

Same way that it is so easy for charlatans like Bertrand Russell, and very sophisticated and malevolent characters like Karl Popper, to enter into the acceptance of the uneducated and crass - partly because they are always saying the same stupid thing over and over again:

'See, see. You can't see it. It isn't there. Agreed?'

And every fool nods sagaciously and readily agrees.

And because people indeed do not see it, they think these imbeciles are 'wise' and 'honest.' 

Here is someone though, who will tell us about light.

And when you have watched the whole thing, you quickly realize that morons like Richard Dawkins and Bertrand Russell and the whole band of them, are complete idiots, and just plainly wrong, in terms of actual science.

They're stupid people, ignorant; plainly ignorant because it is a lot of years since Francis Bacon and Al Kindi and Isaac Newton.

At some point you have to accept they are mentally deficient. And if you pointed them to the Feynman video and they still clung onto to their ridiculous and myopic ideas, you'd have to call them mentally defective.  

So.

You didn't see the light.

Yet.

Because - 'yet,' right?