back in the day you'd be mooching off your family, ranting and raving about what geniuses socrates and archimedes were, parroting their discoveries verbatim to anyone who would listen (which would be no one, no one at all), and swearing up and down that if you'd only been born a thousand years earlier or a thousand years later you wouldn't be such a complete and utter failure. Things weren't so different back then.