40+ of the Freshest and Funniest Tweets of the Week (August 17, 2024)

JR Atkinson • Writer and Editor

Aug 17, 2024 9:00 AM EDT

Some of our world's greatest minds are trapped on Twitter. If they had been born in a different time, perhaps they'd be in the Roman forum, debating art and politics or making earth-shattering philosophical discoveries. Or perhaps they'd be beloved court jesters, clowning around for the king. Maybe they'd be acclaimed writers, crafting tomes that will outlive them by centuries. But now, with the outlet of Twitter, they are doomed to chop up their life's work into fragments and meter them out for the enjoyment of strangers on the internet. This does not make their contributions any less profound. They have simply found a different outlet.

Perhaps the tweets of now will be remembered by future generations and immortalized in textbooks to come. Or maybe in the future all teachers will be replaced by robots and there will be no textbooks. Either way, we have them now, and we must cherish them. Just like Plato would have wanted.