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> The Covid-19 crisis has shocked us by revealing the weakness of Western government, particularly in the United States and Britain, and the strength of the Chi
by DonaldFisk 6y ago
> The Covid-19 crisis has shocked us by revealing the weakness of Western government, particularly in the United States and Britain, and the strength of the Chinese government.
> The philosopher and the cult of Plato provide us with both a model and inspiration for how to fix the ship of state.
Yet Boris Johnson, the British Prime Minister, graduated in Classics at Oxford University, and would not only have studied Plato's Republic, but read it in the original Greek, as part of his course.
- fakedang 6y agoBoris Johnson's education at Oxford was less Greek classics and more Oxford Union, as was that of many current Tory candidates. Of course, the one who led the UK down the crapshoot of a Brexit path in the first place, David Cameron, was a first class holder.