Plato's vision of a three-class system in which the philoso…

Plato's vision of a three-class system in which the philosophers rule over the military and artisan class by deception has never existed in precisely the way that Plato imagined it because the military class is not so foolish that they can't follow the money. Plato's vision is as if he expected to be able to skim off the top forever and just say "the gods have ordained it" if anybody asked about it. Instead, the philosophers and military class have allied one another. Since Plato, the general trend is for the military class to grow smaller relative to the population to be herded and so greater numbers of philosophers are needed to produce propaganda for the lower class. Philosophers still tend to have the same covert narcissist temperament as Plato. We have also seen the emergence of a kind of autistic intellectual who is blind to the deceptive nature of Platonism and imagines that everyone is as intellectually honest as himself. This blindness has plagued libertarians from early on. Next I will look at Plato's influence on religious movements.