Philosophy has an affinity with despotism, due to its predilection for Platonic-fascist top-down solutions that always screw up viciously.
“Platonic-fascist top-down solutions” that didn’t screw up viciously: universal education, the hospital system, unified monetary systems, unified weights and measures, sewers, enforcement of a common code of laws, traffic signals, municipal street cleaning...
“Platonic-fascist top-down solutions” that didn’t screw up viciously: universal education, the hospital system, unified monetary systems, unified weights and measures, sewers, enforcement of a common code of laws, traffic signals, municipal street cleaning...
A lot of people would argue that this is in fact in the process of screwing up right now.
This really didn’t develop top-down.