00:00Think of Socrates or Diogenes. Think of their lives. Or Epictetus. He was a slave. Aurelius, he was a king.
00:06From the king to the slave. From the one who was killed for one reason, Socrates, to the one who
00:11lived in self-imposed social asylum outside the city in a barrel with the dogs. All of them were rebels.
00:17The Rishis that you think of as very peaceful, even placid kind of people. They were burning in fires of
00:24rebellion and from there comes I refuse. I refuse to be co-opted. I refuse to be taken in. I
00:30refuse to be assimilated. I refuse to follow. I refuse to surrender. I refuse to believe.
00:35If you say I respect the truth, then you must also have the guts to say I disrespect everything except
00:43the truth. I refuse to surrender. That refusal is at the core of philosophy. Philosophy is rebellion.
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