Working away on some explainer videos, we discuss the script for an explainer video which is currently called "Knowledge and its enemies" — currently because it's not yet been produced and we might change its name. 

The script begins

"Meet Socrates

The Delphic Oracle proclaimed him Greece’s wisest man

Incredulous, he searched high and low for someone wiser.

Expert craftsmen had more technical skill, but that fed their vanity. So they pontificated on subjects they knew nothing about.

At bottom, Socratic wisdom is an ethical idea — that vanity is the enemy of wisdom.

If you’re wise, you’re radically humble — the more you learn, the more you realise how little you know.

The cathedral of modern science was built on this idea.

That, as much as it offends our vanity, true knowledge begins with scepticism about how much we really know.

And whatever our reputation, the limits of our knowledge must be relentlessly tested against reality.

But somehow we never got the memo.

The enemies of truth-telling remain — deep in our psyche as virulent as ever. …"