An argument is the most basic complete unit of reasoning, an atom of reason. - Baggini

Eternal themes - 'I don't care' - but then - 'love me'.

'They say
What they like
Let them say it
I don't care
Go on, love me
It does you good'

This poem pushes back the earliest appearance of stressed poetry by at least 300 years,” he said. “It has this sort of magnetic rhythm to it, four beats to the bar, a stress on the first beat, and weaker stress on the third beat, which is rock’n’roll and pop music as well.”

The theme of the poem “also feels preternaturally modern”, said Whitmarsh, comparing it to the Sex Pistols line: “We’re pretty a-pretty vacant / And we don’t care.” The poem reads: “Λέγουσιν They say / ἃ θέλουσιν What they like / λεγέτωσαν Let them say it / οὐ μέλι μοι I don’t care / σὺ φίλι με Go on, love me / συνφέρι σοι It does you good.”

“It’s the idea of not caring – this strident assertion of your individuality in a world that’s demanding things of you,” Whitmarsh said.

“We’ve known for a long time that there was popular poetry in ancient Greek, but a lot of what survives takes a similar form to traditional high poetics. This poem, on the other hand, points to a distinct and thriving culture, primarily oral, which fortunately for us in this case also found its way on to a number of gemstones,” said Whitmarsh.

“You didn’t need specialist poets to create this kind of musicalised language, and the diction is very simple, so this was clearly a democratising form of literature. We’re getting an exciting glimpse of a form of oral pop culture that lay under the surface of classical culture.”

Whitmarsh believes the verse, with its lines of four syllables, with a strong accent on the first and a weaker on the third, could represent a “missing link” between the lost world of ancient Mediterranean oral poetry and song, and the more modern forms that we know today. It is, he says, so far unparalleled in the classical world...

“The reason no one has thought about it as a poem before is because it’s not catalogued alongside works of literature, it’s catalogued as an inscription. We’ve got tens of thousands of inscriptions from antiquity, and I just think people weren’t looking for it.” — the guardian - classics - I don't care

"Every artist is an unhappy lover. And unhappy lovers want to tell their story." ~Iris Murdoch

Samuel Lightnin' Hopkins - The Blues

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbJiriEol44

R.L. Burnside: See My Jumper Hanging On the Line (1978)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_DOnKJ232M

I Did The Wim Hof Method Everyday For 30 Days And This is What Happened
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDhdbt-l5eI

John McDowell interview: Avoiding the Myth of the Given and other philosophical thoughts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSXw2mJTF-Y

LIGHTNIN' HOPKINS Live 1964

Why should you read James Joyce's "Ulysses"? - Sam Slote

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7FobPxu27M

Paradoxes That No One Can Solve

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AHUeXkCw3o

Don't Try - The Philosophy of Charles Bukowski

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMTDAHK-tkE

Why should you read James Joyce's "Ulysses"? - Sam Slote

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7FobPxu27M — Corvus

Have you read it ?
I think it is probably one of those books I thought I should read, but didn't.
This TED-Ed animation ( 6 mins ) almost makes me want to try again...
Almost.

I haven't clicked on to your other vids. More details might encourage...
Like this, as copied and pasted:

James Joyce's “Ulysses” is widely considered to be both a literary masterpiece and one of the hardest works of literature to read. It inspires such devotion that once a year, thousands of people all over the world dress up like the characters, take to the streets, and read the book aloud. So what is it about this novel that inspires so many people? Sam Slote uncovers the allure of this epic tome.

View full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/why-should... — Sam Slote - TED-Ed animation

Have you read it ? — Amity

I haven't. It is on my reading list. Seems quite a challenging book to read, but looks interesting.

This is an et al.
Have you met Frans Hals ?
Years ago, I had a strange attraction to his painting: Verdonck.
https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/artists/frans-hals
Later in London - the Laughing Cavalier.
But I'd pretty much forgotten Frans until I read this:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/sep/16/frissons-filth-frans-hals-laughing-cavalier

He painted portraits,” wrote Vincent van Gogh of Hals in 1888, “nothing nothing nothing but that!” He goes on in his letter to the French artist Émile Bernard to detail the kind of portraits his compatriot produced: “Portraits of soldiers, gatherings of officers, portraits of magistrates assembled for the business of the republic, portraits of matrons with pink or yellow skin, wearing white bonnets … he painted the tipsy drinker, the old fishwife full of a witch’s mirth, the beautiful Gypsy whore, babies in swaddling clothes, the gallant, bon vivant gentleman …”

Simplicity appealed to Van Gogh. So he responded with feeling to the straightforwardness of Hals. It was an enthusiasm he shared with the radical French artists Courbet and Manet, who painted copies of works by Hals...

Courbet was drawn to Hals’s portrait of an outsider but he didn’t know how radical this painting really was. The work he copied was thought in the 19th century to be an unknown woman or even a “tronie”, a kind of fictional portrait sometimes created as an experiment by Dutch artists. But the name Malle Babbe – “Mad Babs” – is written on it. 

Haarlem’s town archives reveal this was probably a real woman, named Barbara Claes, who was a patient in the local hospital for mental illness where one of Hals’s sons is also known to have lived. Courbet and Van Gogh felt her reality without knowing this. Malle Babbe is clearly “the old fishwife full of a witch’s mirth” Van Gogh describes....

...another painting that puts Hals at the very forefront of French modern art. La Bohémienne, or The Gipsy Girl, is Paris’s more disreputable Laughing Cavalier. This painting of a young woman in coarsely made, loosely painted clothes that mainly serve to set off her breasts as she grins broadly was left to the Louvre by Louis La Caze in 1869.

The driving force of French avant garde culture was reality. To see and acknowledge the actual world around them in all its filth and glory drove writers and artists alike.

...Hals has a couple of virtues Rembrandt doesn’t. He can make you laugh. And that lightness is the most modern thing about him of all, as we glance at his fast brushstrokes and catch an amused eye looking back. — The Guardian : Van Gogh’s hero: there’s more to Frans Hals than The Laughing Cavalier

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The amused or wicked eye drew me in...even though I knew nothing about the artist, his subject or any kind of categorisation or label.
Imagine that connection...
Capturing a piece of someone's reality.

Nothing, nothing, nothing but painted portraits - Van Gogh.

The Power of Being Alone | Sadhguru

Lightnin Hopkins ~ Trouble in mind

Live at ACL Lightning Hopkins

The Who - Won't Get Fooled Again

“I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance.” - Nietzsche

That's all Folks!

"Study nothing, except in the knowledge that you already knew it." - Clive Barker

"What does a scanner see? he asked himself. I mean, really see? Into the head? Down into the heart? Does a passive... scanner... see into me - into us - clearly or darkly? I hope it does, he thought, see clearly, because I can't any longer these days see into myself. I see only murk. Murk outside; murk inside. I hope, for everyone's sake, the scanners do better.

Because, he thought, if the scanner sees only darkly, the way I myself do, then we are cursed, cursed again and like we have been continually, and we'll wind up dead this way, knowing very little and getting that little fragment wrong too."

- Philip K. Dick