The whole cave parable is like "what if the reality I experience is but a crude approximation and ill defined shadows cast by the real world? And I am forced to sit and observe reality this way."
This basically sounds like a description of when I am really drunk and my vision is blurring and doubling before blacking out (which itself proves impermanence and subjectivity of reality, if you think about it).
I think Plato was an alcoholic trying to dress things up in a baroque philosophical framework to justify it.
It's easier to point out western philosophers that weren't alcoholic. Kant...uhhh...Godel maybe? Not Augustine or Aquinas, thats for sure
we must imagine Diogenes sober