Gorgias Ascendant

Sophistry -- an ethic for our times, here (h/t MLM).  Or, of course, here:

GORGIAS: Well, I do not think, Socrates, that we ought yet to depart, but you should carry through the discussion, and I think the others too agree with me.  I myself am anxious to hear you go through what remains.

SOCRATES: I myself, too, Gorgias, would have liked to continue the argument with Callicles here, until I had paid him back with the speech of Amphion in reply to that of Zethus.  But since you are unwilling, Callicles, to help me finish the argument, you can at least listen and interrupt if at any point you think I am wrong.  And if you refute me, I shall not be vexed with you as you are with me, but you shall be enrolled as the greatest of my benefactors.

CALLICLES: Go on alone, my dear sir, and finish the argument.