Alex Richards
Donor
This is more or less the truth. Democracy isn't the best way to govern a body of people, Aristocracy-Meritocracy which a group of Elites (analogous to Educated Nobles in Greek Philosophy instead of overpompous feuding nobles of medieval europe) are the one who has the rein of real power, is the best way in the long run to go, even in the future.
And the closest thing we had in Educated Aristocracy and Philosopher-King is at early Islamic Caliphates, which friends and disciples of the Prophet (PBUH) basically hold the reins and spread the glory of Islam. Things only going south when they try to completely centralize their rule and nobles start feuding with another nobles.
I rather prefer Churchill's comments on the subject:
Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.
The essential problem with this 'Philospher-King' idea is that it exasperates one of the big issues at the moment in the West- the feeling that ordinary people don't matter and have no reason to feel invested in the society.