Plato's Allegory of the Cave: A Parable of Our Age

Plato's Cave foretells our history.
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[@stans208]

I have read this passage many times and have studied it many hours, but your reading made it feel wholly new again. Bravo and thank you!

[@clumsydad7158]

the well of deception is deep, of illusion, of each new generation having to penetrate the human condition, unmask from the veils of ignorance. the projections and simulations, ideologies and abstractions, and constructions of concrete, glass, and steel in which we encase ourselves. the temptation of all the addictions, but to break thru, and know even for brief moments what it is to be a being inside a universe, and beyond