 And this is Hitler, right? Hitler had to, you had to have a Hitler to commune with the spirit of the Aryan people Who knows what the Aryan wants except unless you have a Hitler? And really this goes back to Plato to link this up philosophically to the idea of a philosopher king The whole idea of Plato's philosophy is that real knowledge, the truth, is unknowable to all of us, right? The common person is living in a cave. He sees shadows. This is his cave And that the philosopher king actually sees the sun, sees the truth, the world of forms So when we see our chairs and carpets and everything, that's not real reality The real reality is in a different dimension and then you need somebody who can not reason his ways of that other dimension But through some form of revelation Get that knowledge and then communicate to all of us And that's why in the republic you're ruled by philosopher kings because they're the only ones who have real knowledge Now all Hitler, Lenin, Stalin are, are in a sense fillings for the philosopher king And I think about Christianity as well. What's a pope? A pope communes with the world of forms, God Yeah, and he tells us what's the truth. So as long as Plato rules, and I think Plato very much rules the world we live in We tend towards authoritarian models. We tend towards collectivism We undercut the argument for reason. The beauty of Aristotle, Plato's nemesis ultimately historically, is that Aristotle says no, each one of us has a capacity to reason, each one of us has a capacity to know reality as it is And therefore each one of us can be our own master. We can guide our own life We don't need philosopher kings to tell us how to live. We can we can know reality And therefore we know what's good for us. We know what kind of government we want We can therefore elect the government. So it's the rebirth of us, the tilianism, particularly in the Enlightenment Which is which gives us kind of the the the capitalist the free sort of self-confidence Yes, that's the that's the thing that I think it's really been lacking recently I mean, I find it really bizarre as well because with with the advent of the internet My god, if you think you can make something happen, then you have every tool you will ever need Literally at the end of your fingertips. Absolutely, but think about the heirs of Plato The heirs of Plato in my mind today are the post of the post con the post Kantians Ultimately the postmodernist and the what are the postmodernist teaching our kids at every university pretty much in all? Reality doesn't exist. Your mind is impotent and futile So why even try the only the only comfort you can get is by joining your little racial or ethnic group Whatever so whatever the group happens to be but you somehow when we're in a group We have knowledge how are we gonna get that knowledge? Well, we're not so we're gonna just have to go to our philosopher king the professor or whatever And he's gonna give it to us and it's not in this world because again this world doesn't exist They said what we're seeing is a recycling over and over again throughout history of Plato's ideas and different geysers and They are destructive to exactly individual confidence because if you lose confidence in your mind if you're told that reason is impotent You're dead you're finished right and and that's that's the key that is the rediscovery of reason the rediscovery of Aristotle The and until we have Aristotle in a sense anchored in our humanities And until we reject the postmodernism and everything really since Kant and and I know you've you've you've kind of Red ominous parallel So yeah, and and and a whole chain from Kant to Hegel to Schopenhauer to Marx that ultimately Nietzsche to Heidegger and to the to the foquas and all the ridiculous postmodernists It's all one chain. Yeah, and it's all one chain in It's just variations of On on Plato's spin and what Kant does is he modernizes Plato and he makes him seem more sophisticated But it's still the same stuff and until we reject that We're stuck