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.

  • Tachanka [comrade/them]
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    11 months ago

    everybody in all of human history including children was alcoholic until 1985 change my mind