Socrates's Eugenics Program Is Utterly Dehumanizing

Alex Castellanos: In Socrates' moral education, he talks about the censorship of religious texts. He says if you force people to only model themselves after good people, there's a couple consequences. One is that it's incredibly repressive, right? And two, all the stories will be boring,. They're all like very sort of like moral kind of fables. That's not a place you want to live!Castellanos: I was struck by, maybe this isn't the, but when Socrates is talking about, let's censor the stories that the youth hear because they're so impressionable.