...shout out to the Greeks...

...the world should turn again to logic as the basis of life.  I would only say the limit of such a cultural shift would mean that we take on Aristotle's ideal of a well-rounded structure of logic and aggressiveness - in the classical sense of course.  When you examine the Organon, you have to imagine a savage world all around Greece, with the epicenter of humankind's extension into strengthening the mind as tool, developing in the genius of one man.

In Prior Analytics http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/a/aristotle/a8pra/, the concept of syllogisms - where an argument can be structured with its conclusion being found sound/valid - puts the foundation of science, philosophy and politics upon solid ground.  It is pure genius on a scale that would probably be found again 2200 years later in Einstein.  Where the germination of an idea, so wildly off base, could even generate a ground breaking affectation today...it puts to shame the struggle for feeble minds to express something even close on that scale.

Yet, that is what we have now.  Empty thoughts blasted without either the inherent genius of a Greek philosopher, or the struggle of truly taking a thought and fully meting out its implication.  Longstanding influence of such thoughts are mere fashion.  Cultural basket cases are deemed newsworthy - we don't hear from the top minds any more.  That's where fashion fails and the lemmings follow suit.

Take Socialism, not as a philosophical argument, but as a logic argument.  It has failed so many times, in so many corners of the world, with the consistency of an atomic clock - yet, you'll find the philosophical mindset extant.  It's a blatant disregard to the uses of history, all to the tune of millions upon millions of lives that socialism has taken.  It's inevitable outcome creates disharmony, dictatorship and death.

The ideas behind it are groundbreaking, but they lack the truth of human nature.  Pope John Paul, who is neutral to economic affairs, even remarked that, as imperfect as capitalism is, it, at least, embraces and excels the human condition.  It's a generalization of a general statement, but, if you look around you in the Western World, the conditions of health, science, education and technology prove that an imperfect system can be used to the overall good - although, yes, we need to ensure that it provides for those that will fall inevitably short.

But we argue.  We ignore the blatant facts of history and shoehorn our ego into the argument.  But there are only very few men that will make it 2000 years into the future and be recognized for going beyond themselves and reaching closer to truth.