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"Gadfly" is a term for people who upset the status quo by posing upsetting or novel questions, or attempt to stimulate innovation by proving an irritant.
The term "gadfly" was used by Plato to describe Socrates' relationship of uncomfortable goad to the Athenian politician scene, which he compared to a slow and dimwitted horse.
During his defense when on trial for his life, Socrates, according to Plato's writings, pointed out that dissent, like the tiny (relative to the size of a horse) gadfly, was easy to swat, but the cost to society of silencing individuals who were irritating could be very high.
Socrates was accused of being a GADFLY to Athenian society in Plato’s Apology.
The goal of GADFLY is to begin to fill the void that is the absence of an intellectual community at Stony Brook, to stimulate thought and provoke debate.
GADFLY is a place for your stream-of-consciousness narratives and rants, poems and drawings.
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