Descent into Deviance: How it Happens*

First they started teaching women philosophers, and we did not speak out-

Because hey, we thought, listen a bit to them what birth ya.

Then they started teaching Indian philosophy, and we did not speak out-

Because Socrates may have a daemon, but Arjuna actually converses with a god!

Then they started teaching philosophers of race, and we did not speak out-

Because here was some heady new stuff under the philosophical sun.

Then they started teaching Chinese philosophers, and we did not speak out-

Because here was yet more philosophical shit we’d not heard before.

Then they started teaching all this stuff and more all over the place, and we did not speak out-

Because how cool is that?!?

*Inspired by Ben Alpers, intellectual historian to the stars