Everyone larps as a Platonist until his political ideas are actually put into practice, then it is suddenly a foreign thing to our modern sensibilities
Platonism is childish it only works in the safe space that is your imagination. You end aligning with people who don't actually hold your values ore you end up arguing over semantics because your ideals aren't the same as the person you're talking to.
I was listening to a philosophy professor give a lecture on book 1 of the republic and he was so excited to talk about how socrates owns the sophist, and especially at one point where when the sophist gets a difficult question he becomes warm and starts to sweat, showing him blushing even as he answers, and this showed how wrong the sophist was. All I could think was the sophist didn't blush, Plato wrote that the sophist blushed, as part of his strawman.
