From Rebekah Frumkin’s Socrates and Glaucon on the Home Shopping Network.
SOCRATES: So cleanliness is the complete obliteration of dirt, bacteria and unsightly stains. Am I right?
GLAUCON: Yes, Socrates.
SOCRATES: So to effectively clean, one must also sterilize, as a sterile surface is one that is also not dirty?
GLAUCON: Yes, Socrates.
SOCRATES: But an ordinary mop will not do this?
GLAUCON: No, Socrates. Look what a hassle it is for me to use! And none of the stains are coming off!
SOCRATES: Yes. It is quite impossible to get one’s kitchen satisfactorily clean with an ordinary mop. But one could add Dirt-Fighting Technology™ to an ordinary mop, could he not?
GLAUCON: It depends on what sort of technology it is.
SOCRATES: It would consist of the elongation of the mop’s bristles and an internal motor that causes the mop’s head to swivel conveniently with the flip of a switch.
GLAUCON: Then yes, I agree that one could add such technology to an ordinary mop. But would it still be an ordinary mop, Socrates?
SOCRATES: Very astute, Glaucon. It would not. For convenience’s sake, let’s call it the EZ-Klean Mop™. Now answer me this: would the EZ-Klean Mop ™, given that it has the Dirt-Fighting Technology™ I’ve just described, be able to more effectively rid spaces of dirt or plague?
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