yes but what if the air in the cave is safe and the air outside the cave is trying to kill you?
I went out once
when I came back inside, you wouldn't believe what they did to me
what if i stay at the threshold of the cave because i only like looking at the sun rather than basking in its deadly laser
Book-knowledge and thinking things through is such a trap. You onky really start to understand when you bump up against reality.
:fry: this feels like a reverse trap trying to lure people out of caves to feed
Yeah, last time I tried that I got burned, while wearing 50+SPF sunscreen, in less than an hour. No thanks I like air conditioning and a porcelain complexion.
I go out and I can safely say that it's largely overrated but nice every now and again. (Also wear a fucking mask)
🙄mfers when they only take about the first cave but not caves 2 through 17 never mind all the caves of order ℵ0.
Wasn't Plato cave story's point that the real world is fake (so stay inside I guess and don't touch grass)?
No way, it's that if you go back in to the cave after having seen the light and seen that the shadows are not the actual object the other prisoners will get really mad at you and deny that anything you say is true.
Ok I concede that, but still the shadows for him tend to refer to the real world, as far as I understand.
Yes sorry what @GarbageShoot says is what I meant: The material world, which is what people refer to when they say "touch grass" or "go outside".
The soul must learn, by degrees, to endure the contemplation of Being and the luminous realms
This is why no one goes straight from chud to ML. You need to pass through several degrees of liberalism first.
