Of course we learn useful tidbits data and factoids from various authorities teachers sages and gurus, but the truly profound insights we gather in our voyage to the sublime are the ones which we teach ourselves, those often involving suffering, and frequently from unexpected sources. The protagonist of this drama makes a claim to exalted insight based upon his moral superiority: he is better than the average cave-dweller, but why? Based upon his experience, and really, only because he says so.

Plato's Cave is the perfect example of a flawed imperfect philosophical metaphor. Only the natural born enlightened philosopher king has the moral strength to turn his back upon this cozy little society of the spectacle and grope his way out of the cavern to the blinding light of the sun, and once his eyes adjust, perceive the real world in startling clarity, the one on which the artificial entertainment of the cave is merely a perverse parody. A bunch of people are sitting in a cave watching a puppet show.

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