[Music] hey kids time for another hot steamy load of knowledge dripping down your neck and chest today we're going to talk about the greatest mind to ever live nope not him nope keep trying who I'm really referring to is the ancient Greek philosopher known as diynes of cop diogenes followed the school of thought known as cynicism far from the yelling at CNN sitting down during the pledge kind of cynicism we know today cynic philosophy centers around the rejection of conventional Desires in favor of a simple moderate lifestyle but while many philosophers made The Virtue out of self-discipline diogenes took all that to a whole new level he was the most down toe guy out there literally he lived on the ground in a big tub in the marketplace where he'd beg for a living for a while his only possession was a wooden bowl until one day he saw a child drinking out of his hands and he was like what do I need this [ __ ] for now though his way of life in perspective was unique and enough it's the way diogenes showed it that really set him apart from the rest when someone today wants to go against Society they dye their hair blue and make a block post about how there aren't any obese women of color and Super Smash Bros on the other hand when diogenes has something to say he just jerks off in public takes a dump in the amphitheater pisses on passer by whatever the way he saw it he was just performing much-needed bodily functions while also protesting the superficiality of the civilization around him keep in mind though he was an unwashed publicly defecating homeless man that's not all he was his wit was easily on par with his philosophical contemporaries and his lack of inhibition meant that everyone knew it for example here's an often pondered question of the day how do you define a human in the simplest of terms possible Plato decided to tackle this question and he came up with featherless biped and in the ancient Greek World they didn't have any kangaroos or Gibbons or nothing so people were the only things around that both walked on two legs and didn't have feathers Plato thought he was real clever with that one diogenes on the other hand he he wasn't having any of it so he said all right you pompous prick I'll give you a featherless biped so in reality we do not learn and what we call learning is only a process of recollection oh God damn it not you again what's up [ __ ] hey check out this person I found isn't it such a human look at him wow what a guy anyway love to stay in chat but I saw some trash outside that look delicious smell you later deliberator yes my student yeah uh what the [ __ ] here's another anecdote Macedonian King Alexander was a big fan of diogenes so he decided to pay him a visit and he said hey man big fan if there's any favor I can do for you anything at all just let me know I'll make it happen now to put this into perspective this is Alexander we're talking about the guy who had his cousin straight up assassinated so he could take the throne the guy who would later go on to conquer the majority of the Civilized world and you know what diyes says he goes yeah you can do me a favor move over you're in my light wow I'm just I'm not even mad you really are just a legend diogenes lived up to the ripe old age of 89 I don't know if that's a testament to his lifestyle or if he just got lucky but either way if there is a God he definitely has a sense of humor the exact cause of diogenes's death varies depending on which source you look at some say he died from an infected dog bite others say it was from eating raw octopus my favorite theory is that one day he just got tired a living and he just held his breath till he died he left behind instructions on what to do with his body after after he passed now when people think of special postmortem instructions like these they usually think scatter my ashes at 6:53 a.m. off the Western face of Mount Rainer using my grandfather's favorite Ladle none of that with diogenes he kept it simple in the words of Danny DeVito when I'm dead just throw me in the trash specifically he wanted his body tossed into the wild so animals could Feast on him thereby giving back to the Earth what little he took from it so kids moral of the story don't judge a book by its cover the man who appears to be nothing more than a [ __ ] smeared babbling vagrant could actually be the wisest man you'll ever meet or it could really just be a raving [ __ ] lunatic bring a knife just in case anyway till next time I'm samonella and thank you for [Music] watching