James asked me if there's a word for "The Platonic Rule of Philosophers." The best I could come up with was "philosopharchy," which is funnier than "sapiocracy."
Let's use it as a verb. "That spatchcockerel is philosopharching about again."
New vocabulary for 2013! [See previous two entries.]
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James is in school this morning, despite philosophical differences. I'm grateful to the Los Angeles Unified School District. Without it, we would have to thrust our teenagers into alleys to squabble over bones all day. Could be worse.
Plato himself calls it an aristocracy -- "rule of the best." But how about "bloviarchy"?
ReplyDeleteOn a very, very tenuously related note, I thought you needed to know that the side of my Chipotle paper bag was imprinted with a sizeable paragraph of lorem ipsum, in the distinctive Chipotle "handwritten" style. Deliberate or accidental?
So "aristocracy" used to mean "rule of the best"? Now being an aristocrat "means a long time ago somebody did something horrible to someone else and was rewarded for it by some monstrous or syphilitic king," as Jonathan Carroll puts it in "Bones of the Moon." Plato does need a new word.
ReplyDeleteIf I ever finish Noble Head Funnies #8, Platonic Puss will attempt to combine the best features of Aristocracy, Bloviarchy, and Philosophocracy. Maybe Technocracy, as well; it hasn't been getting as much press as it once did.
Probably looked Spanish enough for Chipotle.