“It arrived promptly and worked precisely as advertised.”
“I HATE it!” 
Could you explain the connection to Diogenes? I only know him as the ancient greek guy who told Alexander to get out of in front of the sun, spat in rich people’s faces, and masturbated in public. Did he also leave confusing reviews?
Diogenes slept in a pithos (Think a barrel sized ceramic jar), lived on the street, and claimed to only own one item, a bowl which he used to drink and eat. One day he saw a child drink from his cupped hand, upon seeing which Diogenes broke his bowl and proclaimed that he had been bested by a child.
But it’s just that it’s the message of a contrarian seeming anti materialist. Which is Diogenes’ vibe. It’s not deeper than that.
I know him as the “ultimate cynic”. So when I saw this character who seemed impossible to please despite getting everything he wanted, Diogenes came to mind.
My understanding of classical antiquity is almost assuredly wrong, so don’t take me too seriously.
who seemed impossible to please despite getting everything he wanted
Oh no he got none of what he wanted. What he wanted was for people to be better. That’s the whole point of cynicism, you know “A cynic is a disappointed optimist”. A central tenet of greek cynicism is that humans should be better. We are animals that are aware of our status as animals, and rather than trying to be better we spend our entire lives creating elaborate falsehoods to deny the central reality of our status as animals.
The pursuit of material wealth, status and adherence to social conventions is all shit we just made up to avoid just being better.Diogenes had relative social privilege we can observe with our modern intersectional lenses, but he still did not want wealth, he did not want social privilege, he didn’t want anything.
That’s the point of stories like him telling Alexander all he wanted from him was to move a couple steps or going through the streets searching fruitlessly for a good man.
