"Philosopher kings" are always much more "kings" than "philosopher". Just like when the Enlightenment philosophers realized their "enlightened despots" were much more "despots" than "enlightened".
When Plato, famous philosopher, first pitched the idea that philosophers should be king, I bet he began the sentence with "okay, hear me out on this one..."
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An agnostic dyslexic insomniac lay awake at night wondered if there really was a dog
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Until, in exhausted delirium, he sold his soul to Santa.
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Plato didn't much like the democracy in which he was living at the time. It's a good thing there wasn't a king around, or that dude might have been killed or otherwise silenced.
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Socrates does not agree with your argument.
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And the second part started with: „I know what you’re thinking…”
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If Plato was alive today he would be an ardent follower of Jordan Peterson. His former student, Aristotle would be a Sam Harris acolyte. Both of them would be incels
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Surely there’s an argument for just having a competition to find the cleverest person in the world then all just doing what they say? Stuff democracy! Even if they turned out to be completely evil and selfish, they’d at least recognise they needed a habitable planet to live on!
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