From the Enlightened!!

My talent for exploration and investigation moved me to examine Plato and other famous philosophers as well as existing systems.  Plato in fact suggested transforming large groups of people into societies governed by a large number of "philosopher-kings." These "rulers" would not compete like horses running a race, but instead would cooperate like worker bees in a healthy hive, and like individual leaves in a healthy tree, and like individual tissues and organs in a healthy human body, all to cooperate to keep the whole population healthy and fit in mind, in body, and in spirit.  But unfortunately as yet no traditional culture, religion, or nature has really taken pains to test Plato's invention.   One can go to a modern University in the United States - and perhaps still in Europe, and meet with learned professors who can talk extensively about Plato, and even defend Whitehead's claim that "all of Western philosophy is merely footnotes to Plato&quo