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Monday, May 21, 2007

A Brief Consideration of Philosophy

A dog loves to take a shit. He's happy. He's psyched about it! He thinks he's giving you a present, when he does that. Especially when you go to pick it up afterwards. He's like, "Quality product, huh boss? Just keep feeding me the good stuff, and I'll keep churning it out! To that same high standard."

A cat doesn't share this enthusiasm. A cat finishes up, looks at it and says, "hm. I better bury that thing."

The ancient Greek philosopher Diogenes seems to have taken the dog as his emblem almost purely on this basis.

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