Plato does make sense..

Its funny how things that didn’t make sense before can come back to haunt you and finally that little light bulb lights up.
Well I signed up for this history of comm. art theory class and it turns out that communication theory really dates back to "back in the days." Our professor told us we were reading Phaedra’s. I didn’t know then, but I was actually going to be making a connection with one of the first philosophers of our times Mr. Socrates himself.
For those of you who know Socrates and his stories this one is a bit different then the ones I have encountered. Phaedrus deals with an encounter with Plato and the character named Phaedrus while they are discussing a speech made by a man named Lysias. In this speech Lysias tries to persuade a jury that being a “non-lover is better then a lover.” Right away I knew that I was not going to agree but to my surprise Lysias did make rational points.

” A non-lover cannot make being in love an excuse for the neglet of his own business, or take past effort into account, or complain of having fallen out with his relatives.
Lysias believes that someone who is not in love will not have to deal with forgetting about the life they used to live before they were in love or deal with acts of jealousy from relatives. I would say how brilliant? But reality is that we are humans and it will take miracle for something like this to happen with all of the relationships that we have. Do not become a love, however is it really possible to stay so disconnected from someone that emotions will not run wild and not even lust will exist?
Also, not wanting to become a love just shows how fear of the unknown can be become our number one enemy and our ally at the same time.