if there is a transcendental, Platonic 'form' of Meathead, 

Mike Parson, Governor of Missouri, is it.

Allegories for Our Time #38

Giuliani's Cave

Carly Fiorina Sez: "One of the things I would immediately 

do is bring back the warrior class, made from the finest

terracotta, just like the one described in Plato's Republic."

Allegories for Our Time #23

In the Allegory of Sullivan's Cave, Plato is bearded,

bespectacled, bald, Apple-positive, and backlighted

by a Tiffany lamp.

Plato, Missouri---whose 74 residents live in a cave---is the

new demographic center of the United States.

"Plato's Dialogues are a clear sign that 'Socratic Irony' (if you've

 got a better term, let me know) is eating into the foundation of

our political system."

And then there's David Miscavige, the Big Enchilada of
today's Church of Scientology, who makes L. Ron Hubbard
and Dianetics sound like the second coming of Plato and
his immortal dialogues.

Was he perceiving the permanent unchanging archetype of
 a soccer ball or just one of its fleeting shadows? Christian 
couldn't make up his mind, so he resolved to read the 
Phaedo one more time after the game.