“For if you put me to death, you will not easily find another, who, to use a rather absurd figure, attaches himself to the city as a gadfly to a horse, which, though large and well bred, is sluggish on account of his size and needs to be aroused by stinging. I think the god fastened me upon the city in some such capacity, and I go about arousing…” -Socrates, as reported by Plato in The Apology A gadfly friend of mine has never done the pose of submission to the great state, the “I surrender” pose. You know, the … Continue reading The Fear Mask and the ‘I Surrender’ Pose