Plato's Cave is a Cunt
In response to this comment under this post I've decided to summarise the allegory of Plato's Cave and how I feel it relates to love being a cunt.
Plato's Cave (from The Republic, written by Plato around 500 B.C.) is about our knowledge and perception of the world, written as a dialogue between Socrates and Glaucon. In it, Socrates describes a set of prisoners in a cave, who are chained such that they face the back wall. In the mouth of the cave is a huge fire, and between the fire and the prisoners, puppets are dancing. The prisoners see the puppets' shadows - and that is all they know.
Then it is supposed that one of the prisoners is freed, and allowed to wander freely to explore the cave. He sees the fire and the puppets, and his vision of reality is changed forever. Not only can he see and understand the truth of what he once knew, he can no longer understand the truth he once knew - the dancing shadows can never be his reality again.
I feel that this is a good representation of how deceitful relationships can work and perhaps end. The shadows are our perceptions, the puppets are truths and the chains are lies, facades and denial.
It is important to be free of the chains.
Plato's Cave throws up a myriad of questions which philosophers have been struggling to answer for two and a half thousand years. I've only used a tiny subsection to demonstrate a tiny point. So if you're interested in the whole concept, read the entire thing here.
Plato's Cave (from The Republic, written by Plato around 500 B.C.) is about our knowledge and perception of the world, written as a dialogue between Socrates and Glaucon. In it, Socrates describes a set of prisoners in a cave, who are chained such that they face the back wall. In the mouth of the cave is a huge fire, and between the fire and the prisoners, puppets are dancing. The prisoners see the puppets' shadows - and that is all they know.
Then it is supposed that one of the prisoners is freed, and allowed to wander freely to explore the cave. He sees the fire and the puppets, and his vision of reality is changed forever. Not only can he see and understand the truth of what he once knew, he can no longer understand the truth he once knew - the dancing shadows can never be his reality again.
I feel that this is a good representation of how deceitful relationships can work and perhaps end. The shadows are our perceptions, the puppets are truths and the chains are lies, facades and denial.
It is important to be free of the chains.
Plato's Cave throws up a myriad of questions which philosophers have been struggling to answer for two and a half thousand years. I've only used a tiny subsection to demonstrate a tiny point. So if you're interested in the whole concept, read the entire thing here.
posted by Juliet is Bleeding... | 10:55 am
dude, that is so cool. it's just like in pinonchio. "i got no strings to hold me down."
i'm so attached though. and i don't really want to be without my strings, not completely, even though i act like do. i'm a sucker.