Diogenes On Modernity: Resurrecting the Exposer

Interlude to Resamodernity Café v2: Blueprints for Scaling Resonance

The TED Talk

1. Introduction: Modernity Raised Me From the Dead

(The stage lights rise. A clay jar lies center stage. It rattles. Diogenes crawls out.)

Well.
Look at you.

Microphones. Cameras. Climate control.
And not a single citizen ready to drag me to court.

I suppose I owe you moderns a strange kind of thanks—
you resurrected me.

Not out of reverence.
But because you built a world safe enough
that a man like me can speak truth
without being killed for it.

Impressive.
Unnatural.
And, I fear, incomplete.