Yes. I suppose my sarcasm didn't come through very well. To paraphrase a popular meme, Plato is only known to us today via his wrestling nickname. His opinion o

Yes. I suppose my sarcasm didn't come through very well. To paraphrase a popular meme, Plato is only known to us today via his wrestling nickname. His opinion on leadership was that a philosopher-king, somebody both thoughtful and powerful, should dictate society. In his own life, he was politically entangled, but he was never given the power that he felt he earned. I'm also reminded of Idiocracy, which checks all of the same boxes. I don't know whether Mike Judge was thinking of Plato, though.