Noble Lie Socrates

This idealized system shows how Socrates philosophy expresses that even the ruling class has to be wise enough to justly rule the people, but still ignorant enough to not realize that the conjured up myth is a lie. This thinking suggests that an ideal society requires a “noble lie” which is especially ironic considering that Socrates was ultimately killed for his impiety by not worshipping the old gods and questioning their ways, yet in his idealized society he proposes creating a new deity/myth and erasing the earlier history. This implies that even the most “perfect” of civilizations require a fundamental lie at its foundation, therefore the best nation is not natural or true. The only other conceivable way to change the society so drastically