Inventor of democracy did not foresee European Union

Plato's Republic from year 1713. Source: Columbia University

In an exclusive interview via ouija board, the little known Athenian who actually invented democracy (the invention is often mistakenly credited to Pericles), admits that Plato may have been right all along:

“He warned us that people wouldn’t be able to govern themselves. We disagreed. We thought, nah, got to be possible. But that Plato was a wily bugger. I reckon he could probably foresee how things would go beyond the nation state, same language, same culture, and so on. And I bet he had a shrewd idea how the problems would start when foreigners began governing each other.

“It all gets far too sophisticated for people when foreigners are involved. Empires are much more straightforward. You know where you are with empires.

“Boy, if I had my time again…”

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   Lino Nashorn says:

   April 1, 2010 at 4:16 pm

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