the perfect society is described as socrates that relies on labor and tradesmen. they protect the city. the question was put to socrates, who will guard the guardians, or who will protect us from the protectors? the answer byplay to buy this is that they will guard themselves against themselves. we must tell the guard in the noble lie, and that will assure them that they are better, and it is therefore their responsibilities to guard and protect those lesser than themselves. we will instill this taste for power and privilege. [bell] president chiu: thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors, president chiu. ♪ you might have been blown round by the wind you might have been thrown down in a civic center wind but i hope you aim high and i hope that you, you made it through i hope that you really try and you will reach the sky and you will reach the sky and you are really going to fly

what living a full life according to you first of all i do want to say i did say that but so did socrates and plato and a lot of other people. i don't exactly i don't get i don't get full credit by that but what i mean by that is that if we if we deny that deny other things are going to happen to us that we may not live as fully as we can i feel there is some advantage to taking being aware of death and it will change your life sometimes i can tell you how this problem was brought home to me is that i worked for many years ten years perhaps with people who are dying of cancer i had the people in groups and were working which was very helpful to them but i began to feel that a certain percentage of a third of these people began to say they were they were different they began to change the priorities in life what was important to them they began to say no to the things they didn't really want to do one of the. forgotten this what a pity it was that i had to wait till now till my body was riddled with cancer to learn how to live so it's the idea of learning how to become wiser by keeping the

cross, the virgin birth, the resurrection, jesus' miracles and he sees jesus as a sort of jewish socrates, almost a lenny bruce character, is that right. >> that's right. >> you find no evidence in any of your scholarship, by the way, that jesus was a revolutionary, correct? interi find counterevidence. >> counterevidence? if yes is it he was not a revolutionary nor an insurrectionist. >> not that i can see from the documents. >> was jesus a conservative? >> i don't think so. >> well, in what sense was he unorthodox? >> well, i think that in what sense is what he saying somehow alarming or gripping or revolutionary? >> did he support the tora. >> oh, yes. >> oh, yes. so he did root himself in sources, correct? >> he was a jew. >> that's what i'm getting at, was he not basically conservative. he was -- go ahead. >> well, just it depends on which jew you ask. but it's -- you know, he's certainly within the -- a penumbra of typical jewish practice in the first century but there's something that makes him stand out and that's his belief that the kingdom of god is at hand. >> i hate to say it

. >> better known as poison hemlock of socrates fame. >> so be it.is day takes an unusual turn. robert is the a proposal photographer, his landscapes world renowned. but vistas like these felt like dead-ends. >> i could see my future would feel like my past if i continued to practice black and white landscape work. >> as he enters the dark room, he's yet to use a traditional camera and never will. he lays the plant on a piece of photo paper, hooks it up with an electrical charge and zaps it with 40,000 volts. >> when it does so, the air that surrounds the plant is ionized and gives off ultimate va violet light. >> the results completely unique. the process took a year to perfect. even caught his wife julie off guard. >> were you surprised when he came up with this? >> my wife was a saint for 11 months and 28 days. >> i didn't know what he was talking about for a very long time. >> she sat me down and said that i needed to get focussed on what i was going to accomplish and get on with it. >> when people say that robert's work generates a buzz, they're

socrates, new york. it's by woodstock.m heard about an impression contest on the radio and so she told me, she goes you're doing voices up in your room. why don't you go after this contest? i went out. bananas comedy club and won first place. i think it was like $500. i was 16 years old. and i was like, $500 for 1 minute of comedy? this is my career. this is a good gig. >> larry: how did you get "saturday night live"? >> i went out to l.a. did groundlings. got an audition for the show. i went and performed in front of loren michaels. >> larry: just him? >> they have you do impressions and the original characters and if you do any music, do musical impressions. i was an impressionist. i wanted to do different characters and voices. everyone tells you loren's not going to laugh. the guy's putting the microphone, good luck, dude. loren's not going to laugh. don't worry about it. he's seen it all. no problem. i go into the makeup room. the girl's like, oh, you look great but, loren's not going to laugh. he doesn't laugh. he's

poison hemlock of socrates fame. >> so be it. because this is where his day takes an unusual turn.rt is a professional photographer. his landscapes world renowned. but a few years ago even vistas like these began to feel like dead ends. i could see my future would look just like my past if i continued to practice black and white landscape work. >> now he confines his work to plants. but you might notice as he entered the red safe light in his dark room, he's yet to use a traditional camera and never will. lays the plant on photo paper, hooks it up to an electrical charge and zaps it with 40,000 volts. >> when it does so, the air that surrounds the plan is ionized and gives off ultraviolet light in the form of the energy field of the plant. >> the result completely unique. the process took a year to perfect. even caught his wife julie offguard. >> were you surprised when he came up with this? >> yes. >> my wife was a saint for 11 months and 28 days. >> i didn't know what he was talking about for a very long time. >> she sat me down and said that i needed to get focussed on what i wa

socrates?the culture of the times, a theory that was secured two years later when his production company released "when harry met sally". >> you realize of course we can never be friends. >> why not? >> because the sex part always gets in the way. >> reporter: is the billy crystal character in that movie any part of you? >> it's 100% me. i mean, when i was single -- i had been married for ten years, single for ten years, making a complete and utter mess of my dating life. i mean, you want to have sex, but if you do have sex does that ruin the relationship? >> reporter: perhaps it doesn't sound like a topic to involve your mom in, but he did that. his mother estelle who died in 1978 steals what should have been an unstealable scene. >> i'll have what she's having. >> i remember being in the theater and the place went nuts. >> yeah, it exploded. >> reporter: did it take a lot of talking to get your mom -- >> no. because she was just happy to spend the day with me. she had a hot dog, she watched i