Platonism & Collapse
How Plato's Ideas Shape the Grand Arc of History
TL:DR Over the course of history, whenever major systems break down, a strange insight bubbles up from the fringes of society. The ideas of the Greek philosopher Plato always begin to circulate in hushed whispers. It happened during the Fall of Rome, when Platonism went by the name Christianity. And it happened again during the collapse of Medieval soci…