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The Poet and the Tyrant: Osip Mandelstam (literaryreview.co.uk)
27 points by Caiero on May 3, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


This goes back a long way: "In the Republic, Plato argues that poets have no place in an ideal state. They spread misinformation and corrupt the youth's minds. [...] The reasonable, the Guardians in the Republic, should rule the state."

https://www.thecollector.com/plato-philosophy-republic-poetr...

Or, in comics: https://existentialcomics.com/comic/233




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