Today, it is politically considered good form to be a cosmopolitan. Diogenes was a cynic and a cosmopolitan. He was even the first cosmopolitan, he coined the term. But Diogenes was anything but politically correct.
When people asked in which Greek city-state he was a citizen, he replied that he was a citizen of Cosmos.
And when people did something that displeased him, e.g. queued up to hear one of the famous rhetoricians (Cynics don’t think much of rhetoric, they demand parrhesia, the blunt truth), Diogenes gave them the finger. It was clear then what was meant by it: I’ll fuck you in your ass! It was an obscene and deliberately insulting gesture. In German, the extended middle finger is called the stinky finger. It’s clear what it stinks of, isn’t it?
Speaking of which, Diogenes once almost kindly woke up a very beautiful boy, who had fallen asleep lying on his stomach. He shook him awake and then said that the boy should be careful that someone did not come from behind and sink his spear into him. Here, too, it should be clear what was meant? Pederasty was normal at the time of Diogenes. It was not the homoerotic act itself that was frowned upon, but only when an adult gave himself to a boy instead of the other way around, dominating him.
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