boats. They have too much at stake. Not philosophers. They’re outliers. Aliens. Socrates was a practitioner of “Crazy Wisdom.” Found in traditions as disparate as Tibetan Buddhism and Christianity, Crazy Wisdom operates on the premise that the path to wisdom is crooked. We must zig before we can zag. Crazy Wisdom means casting aside social norms and risking ostracism, or worse, to jolt others into understanding. The original shock therapy. No one likes to be shocked, and we often dismiss practitioners of Crazy Wisdom as more crazy than wise. Here is how Socrates’s student Alcibiades describes
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