Episode 9: The Better Can Sometimes Still Be Bad, Just Not Worse

As I’ve been producing some lecture videos on Plutarch’s short work On Being A Busybody (which might be subtitled: “Don’t!”), one of the lessons that he doesn’t directly impart, but which is implicit in his work particularly caught my mind’s eye.

Curiosity of a sort of morbid and misdirected sort is what he suggests we ought to avoid and, if we already s…