A mistake committed, most famously, by Plato.*
The biggest political fallacy is the belief that politics is about running a country rather than running a state.
(Which obviously we - well, at least I - have known for centuries, but have never - well at least I haven't - expressed so pithily. And the project is about expressing truth in as few words, and thoughts, as possible, which takes a lot of writing, well at least on my part... and let me just add... - all right: in the up-coming series of political post.)
*In the on-going debate on what to attribute to whom, my hunch is that the absurdly totalitarian strand in Πολιτεία should go to Plato: I just can't imagine Socrates getting things so badly wrong. The old man must have understood at some point that - again, cutting a lot of philosophy and scholarship short - society is, just like us, as much to be discovered as it is to be understood . Alternatively, I'm wiser - in this respect - that the old man himself... (wow! that would be so-o-o so-o-o cool!)
