[[The Tyrants of Syracuse by Jeff Champion#Plato blamed academics for the evils of democracy loved philsopher king idea then he went visited Tyrant-run Syracuse and confronted the hard reality]] #articleseed #articleseed/afterword this is a good tie into [[Scott Alexander]]'s points about the difficulty of changing one's mind, I need to dig more into this room research perspective but it's a good baseline piece of information to trigger a [[Classical Wisdom]] post. ## References - [When philosopher met king: on Plato’s Italian voyages | Aeon Essays](https://aeon.co/essays/when-philosopher-met-king-on-platos-italian-voyages)