UC Application Question 1 (Plato rap)
Channel: MrNevDub
Date: 2012-01-04

Lyrics: An epistemologist of ancient times,
Plato knew his math like I know my rhymes
Knowledge like that, man it can only be known
If you can justify
Like Kant falsifies
Wait, who's that? Oh don't hold the phone,
Just as I expected, it's Mister Plato,

Playin with our minds like he thinks they're blank, whoa
Imagine a new caste like he's the king of state-

(sung)
Oooh Plaaaayto, Mister Plaaaayto,
Won't you mold my mind like it's plaaay-doh
Philosophy, that's the way to be
If you're getting down with women in 400 BC



(back to rap)
That's right, Plato's controversial
Writing down your texts? 
-- that's making them null
Might as well just leeeave, the masses perplexed
Even that guy Carl Sagan (though he wasn't hatin')
Had his head up in the stars 
When he was hittin' modern bars

(No, the one that hold up telescope,
Isn't it time for an atheist joke?)
(sung)
Plaaaayto, Mister Plaaaayto,
How'd you get a name that's so naaarroow
Starrrting, the Academy, 
That was your first step to catastrophe



(rap)
Catastrophe, that's how it looks to me
That you ingested too much play-doh and then couldn't see
Mister Plato, can't you tell us of your death?
Well, it coulda been some play-doh, but it coulda been meth
(stop all music, beats, etc.)
Well, what? You can't prove it wasn't.
(start again)
Ad-ignorantium, there it is, 
Dead before the masses could make it His.
But, don't you worry, you're forever in fame
Even Karl Popper (the new show stopper)
Had some intuition that puts reason to shame

But, hold on Mister Plato, let me tell you one more thing,
Your rejection of my knowledge,
Written on some foliage,
Well that's just one more inspiration to make me want to sing.






(sing)
Ooooh Plaaayto, Mister Plaayto,
Devotion to ideas is a strooong-hold
Socrates, was the one to please
Which makes me start to wonder which of you was on his knees
Praaayin, that's what I'm saaayin,
Modesty and wit were of your faaavorite

(rap)
All in all, it's the journey that you take
If a playdoh -- Plato connection is one you wish to make
However, I leave you with one more thought, 
With no paper as we know it
 and an unwritten doctrine said,
Maybe play-doh was the way Plato got ideas from his head. What?


Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato (so passé)