So glad to see this collaboration! Beautifully done, all around!

I hope that this further leads to newer perspectives for them.

Thank you so much for everything, Mark. It was a honour working with you on this one! ❤️‍🔥🌞

@DontReadMyProfilePicture.57ok. I won’t

The wall is projected through our artificial reality: screens ie. phones, tablets, laptops, movie theaters, Big Screens, flat screen TV, etc. Tell me I am wrong.

And it just continues to play out.

This is the story of your enslavement by the corrupt culture 👉The Connections (2021) [short documentary] 💖

Be A Human. And be A Constitutional American.

Cant find a Flag emoji.🤔

@@mickrozycki451 I restrain myself from saying Alex was right, anons were right etc..

It is our solemn duty to escape, not go back and rescue the others.

In order to save others you have to save yourself first. There are also people that doesn't want to be saved for various reasons.@@happinesstan

It is much easier to live in victimhood, Howe a man’s stays in the world is determined by the quality of his thinking.

and many people are born, live and die in the shadows because those people were never exposed to knowledge nor wisdom.

@@happinesstanin Plato’s work, his point was that it was their responsibility to share their riches (knowledge). That, in order to have the greatest society possible, it required those people choosing a lesser life than they could’ve had had they neglected the others. So, yeah, from the very beginning, “Republic” was always an idea that required a certain altruism, or communism, hence the original Greek title Politeia; “community of citizens”. It was never about “representative” (elitist consolidation of power) government.

Did they leapfrog?

@@rollzolo This is really really important. It's the key to freeing us from the eternal cycle of death and suffering...... And yes, they did leapfrog.

And yet knowing the ocean he'd know nothing of the universe. A hollow enlightenment. Simply knowing more but knowing nothing of what is. And still the frog would know nothing but the tiniest bit of the ocean, as he's a frog, no better than the others. No smarter in the end.

Knowing "what is" is knowing the ocean. Its an analogy.

@petewright4640 It's an illusion of superiority. A way to justify preaching to others when you're truly in no better of a situation. Just more educated in one subject but less in others.

Read the Symposium i.e. Diotima’s ladder

It's basically a pyramid scheme for egotists. Plato wanted to be a hero, he had a unique vision which he wanted to impress upon the world. Unable to chain people to a wall, he wrote a book. In that book he outlined how to be a hero. Basically, he reached the point of discovering beauty [in Socrates' thinking] and going straight back to imitation.

Then you probably didn't learn it, you were taught it.

@@happinesstan You can't teach anyone anything; you can only inspire students to learn.

Absolutely 💯 it seems as though we are all spread around the world, no where near one another

Fortunately we have the internet so its much easier to find other people who are on the same path

Use the JQ as a litmus test.

Definitely. The pain isn't the knowledge but the isolation it often brings. Trying to assimilate back into the trivial once this journey is underway is painful.

The good news is only takes a concentrated few that are committed to turn the trajectory, there lies another issue, thinking and doing.

And the other big piece that needs to be absorbed from this is that we who seem to be living in the sunlight outside the cave, are actually chained to the wall in the dark cave exactly as described. Are we truly able to perceive undistorted reality? Everyone must try to make this shift of levels to really benefit from the power of the allegory. That which you perceive as truth is actually little more than shadows of a much more immediate and profound reality.

This guy gets it 👏

There's much sound speech in the comments, yet I'm not unacquainted with loaded and fanciful rhetoric. "Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it"(Matthew 7:14).

That is the nature of the progressive left. You emerge from one cave only to disappear into another. They end up eating their young.

The allegory explains all of that, as does this video I guess you missed that part and misunderstood LMAO

Lots of kids in school might be better with videos of newer knowledge. But We are Censored,

Keep up the great work!

I've never met a sophisticated English teacher. Keep up with the usual stuff. You're a hero.

@@jmnatty2004censored by who?

Who else? Those who hunger for control. Power.

Right, was waiting for a part where Plato or Socrates would give suggestions on how to deal with resistance to sharing knowledge 😂😂😂 I guess that’s the thing…you gotta be ready to absorb and learn on your own time. This story and lesson I’ve known a long time but only recently have appreciated it.

Even though the allegory indicates a lone venturer others have left the cave also. This is were “we” becomes more powerful than “I” alone.

I'm 64 and often wonder what I'm so wrong about that I think I'm absolutely right about or what I think is so important but doesn't really matter. I've come to both of those realizations many times in my life. As a young man, I took life way to serious.

But if they see you happier and more content in life that gives them reasons to join you. I've discovered in healing myself and focusing on me, others followed my example and I didn't even ask them to, they chose to from seeing me healthier.

@@kristinajackson2014 unfortunately my case is, all that i know are far to chained down to the cave.. as if the original chains weren’t enough, they desired/wanted more chains. Im sure they want to leave their cave, but no clue how to detach themselves from so many chains. Ie: subscriptions to everything chains, and need a 9$ coffee everyday chains waaa im so broke blah blah i give them the keys they toss em in a pile of whatever this guy doesn’t know me. When i actually know humans and how we do sometimes 🤷‍♂️

I was once asked if people have free will -- i answered; of course fast -- but later i came to think about the question, and thought it was not actually so easy to answer, and today i would probably answer no.

@@homeistheearth Yes. You have total free-will. I am a teacher of the divine universe associated with Godly angelics and not any church. Plato, in fact. converted in spirit-body afterlife (thanks to Socrates) to the path I share of on Earth. If you'd like to learn more about free-will and how the universe is actually designed, just ask. Peace.

@@homeistheearth Seconded. Please provide some arguments for substantiation. Explain how, what we now call self-deletion, could occur, outside of free will? (we know it's not a product of a high score of suffering points). And how can we maintain a system of crime and punishment, if there is no free will, how do we hold the criminal responsible? Moreover, how do we hold the punishers responsible for their misdeeds against others, if we cannot?

Good point, touche'!

​@@philippeamon7271Crime and punishment are man made for this planet. The Universe knows only love. People perceive wanted and unwanted. Humans try to control others based on what they do not want. Hence, we see the push and pull. For the Universe, it is what it is. Everyone has free will. Believe, don't believe. Stay in the cave, venture out of the cave. Spend your life trying to control others so you feel better, or, learn to master yourself. The choice is yours.

I perceive that it's because he experienced it and processed it. For me I've experienced the hero's journey and how different people respond. Some choose to walk and experience it while others say they don't believe. I have found that one can choose to progress on the path of peace by facing and letting go of all judgment.

Well Mr. Educator, think of your 'students' as people hooked on drugs. If your ever met a 'junky' or anyone with a pathological addiction like : gambling, drugs, sex etc., you can see how hard it is for them to retake 'control' of their life. Today's society thrives on making most of us 'hooked' on something. Most addictions are unseen. The worst are sugar, screens (iPhone,Tablet etc), gaming, compulsive buying (excess consuming)... So, anyone addicted to sugar (McDonald's, processed food) will face the same battle as the heroin addict. The only difference is the sugar or gamer addict will see themselves as 'normal' and denigrate drug addicts or alcoholics. No wonder rats were wavering when they had to chose between sugar and different hard drugs. That's why many don't want to change their lifestyle to improve their health. Like all addicts, they will find any reason to keep their habit. One has to admit that he has a problem to try taking control of their life. I must say, we all could find, something that we are 'hooked' on in our own life. The only difference with 'addicts' is that it hasn't destroyed our life... yet! hehe

I would love to have the pleasure of meeting you.

hi @@nickieglazer7065

Until you make the unconscious conscious, It will rule your life and you will call it fate -Carl yung

Spoke in the medical industry machine. Be proud!

Troof!

True but also not true it’s more nuanced than that

All of life is Platos cave

Absolutely not true, KZfaq provides information and enlightenment if you watch the right stuff. TV, NFL, Netflix, Hulu, Fox News, Facebook, and especially TikTok are the actual caves

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My school, in England(1960s) only was interested in getting you into "another brick in the wall" NOT in making you think about the wrongs of the system. Peace be unto you.

It's explains why people are so afraid of woke ideas. They are so use to the world they live in. They can't handle wokeness and how it makes more sense

This is the story of your enslavement by the corrupt culture 👉The Connections (2021) [short documentary] 💖

The scary thing is that your perception of "the truth" is incredibly biased and fear based. Good luck on your journey tho.

Might have to watch that. I mean, the meaning crisis seems to have defined humanity for centuries, nay millennia. And it's not particularly tricky. Life has no meaning until you experience it and apply your own. But it's not your place to apply your meaning to anybody else. You can be the master of your own destiny, but you should deter followers.

Me too...I figured out how to cure obesity for most people, and I actually wrote a book about it, but nobody respects my opinion. They can't see through the illusions created by society.

@@ClassicJukeboxBand writing the book is your personal reward, those meant to find you, will find you 🙏

I recommend the stoics, one whom said; one must develop the serenity to accept that which you cant control, the courage to change what you can control, and the wisdom to tell the difference. Sounding the alarm is not how people leave the cave. Be there for people when they start to ask questions and desire answers not shown on the cave wall. You are not the holder of truth, you may be in a part of the cave where you see the fire fooling the others, but you are also following shadows by an alternative secondary fire, built to catch people trying to escape. Trumpism is a good example of this, his supporters think that only they have left the cave of establishment politics and can see the truth, but its just more shadows pretending to be the change they greatly desire, that is enough to keep them satisfied.

This is the story of your enslavement by the corrupt culture 👉The Connections (2021) [short documentary] 💖

@@VeganSemihCyprus33 Wtf is this place?

Only when you avoid your responsibility to partake your own hero's journey.

In the circle or arc of experience, even if it passes through enlightenment, the return phase is a return to the cave. So where else will a completed journey be expressed?

Are you a prisoner?

A prisoner staring at and replying to shadows on a screen.

This is the story of your enslavement by the corrupt culture 👉The Connections (2021) [short documentary] 💖

Consider the realization that THAT which one actually IS is always outside the cave. We enter the cavernous mind to live, love, and wander via attention, but that does NOT mean that we can't access the clarity always available. Life happens in Consciousness, and wisdom is 'developed' the more we take the opportunity to notice when we are entering/exiting the cave within THAT.

You didn't leave the cave. The cave convinced you that you left.

​@@happinesstan how do you know?

But have you ever seen a real libertarian or is it just shadows?

​@DontReadMyProfilePicture.57stop spamming the comments bro.

Reminds me of Christopher Lee.

What path? If you're following a path, it's somebody else's. And humanity has followed Plato's path for long enough now. Maybe we should follow Socrates' path.

And, not to forget the cell phone worshippers who carry their phones and are on it incessantly. Can have a conversation with a friend on the phone (old wall phone) and chat about something then hear her clicking to get updated information on her cell phone.

Yeah, because Plato was critiquing TV and movies.

@@happinesstan Hilarious. To someone in Plato’s day, seeing a television hanging on the wall would look like shadows dancing there.

7.5 billion.

Statistically this content and channel are too honest for %80 of the population.

​@@CrumbsoftotailtariansimThat's right, too much for the snowflake generation 🤣

How many are currently staring at their computer scared of the world that it paints?

False: there are many who never bother to question and many more who don't even bother to think. For the others, understanding of reality is subjective. It's not as clear as sun > no sun and color > monotony. When it comes to who is right, there are superior theories but even they evolve as the human race evolves, outgrowing or re-shaping it's prejudice and bias so it's just a perpetual, rolling question.

I would add that even when we have left the cave and completed the journey... We have to do it all over again.. and again..

The problem is when content is selectively censored. Such as replies to this comment.

True, when the reality is that it’s impossible to “leave” the cave. No matter how enlightened you are, you’re still a human with a flawed body and limited mind.

Exactly, but it's a dream within a dream within a dream

People these days don’t think. Because college teaches you not to think, just follow the Marxist narrative. Don’t send your kids to college. At least for now.

The challenging was a once in a lifetime. Bu the narrative is ongoing.

Once in a lifetime or maybe another few similar things round the corner?....

1. What the fuck are you guys talking about? 2 It's Plato... ONE T

yeah, and its about to get worse. we have more chaos ahead of us.Let go of the trivial, frivilous things now so that you can handle the hardships we are about to face. The good thing is that we will begin to see who is really who and probably form much closer relationships after having to leave many behind.

@@simplecooking9220 many more to come. they want to break us so that we are desperate enough to submit.

Now if only we could learn more lessons from greek philosphers from 2000+ years ago, because there are still so so many that are highly relevant today.

Definitely

Why bother? Every movie is just another shadow on the cave wall. You’re already free but you won’t come out of the cave that is the limited thinking mind. Now that would want a movie for sure but that does nothing for you but keep you stuck imprisoned in the cave. You just don’t know that you are already outside the cave but using the thinking mind to convince yourself you are in a cave (me in a body, in a world, in universe).

It was made into a movie. It was called, The Matrix.

@@highvibefreqzshow5967 you are not free at all

Plato's cave allegory is the original Gnostic myth. Social realities as manufactured illusions to be decoded. Inspiring modern cinematic versions such as "The Matrix", "13th Floor", "eXistenZ" (three flics released in 1999) and any movies created from a Philip K Dick novel.

This is the story of your enslavement by the corrupt culture 👉The Connections (2021) [short documentary] 💖

There's nothing to seek. You have it all already. 🙏🏻✨️

@@divinewind7405 indeed. The Kingdom of God lies within all of us.

This is the story of your enslavement by the corrupt culture 👉The Connections (2021) [short documentary] 💖

religion is the exact opposite of enlightenment@@wrightwinger85

Will do. Thank you!

I've told people that the best thing I did in my life was move from N.J. in the late 60's to San Francisco. I've also told people the worst thing I've done in my life is move from N.J. in the late 60's to San Francisco.

Nobody is out of the cave, that’s the whole point

You're still IN the cave!!!

​@@JoshDilworth care to explain

@@devinkipp4344 It’s been some months since reading this but I’ll summarize. The cave’s entire premise is based around only knowing the experience one has been given, and not being able to see further because of this constraint. You can question this premise if you’d like, but this is how I interpreted it. We have a limited amount of experiences, no matter who we are. None of us are able to know things we haven’t experienced, so it follows that we are all in a cave of some sorts and always will be. To me, only an all-knowing being would no longer be part of a cave. Of course the caves change as we become educated, and instead of a the extremely restrictive cave at the start of this section in the Euthyphro, we might have a ‘cave’ like Earth that we are bound to. A few considerations: I don’t have the view that we must have direct experience to know of something, this would be an anti-intellectual stance; when I speak of experience, I’m including the many instruments we use to measure things we can’t directly experience ( compositions of other bodies in space, abstract mathematics, microorganisms, for example). And including the things we arrive at by deductive, or inductive inferences.

Politics is the second

So he was trying to free us from the Kali Yuga and our Karmic chains essentially? Ill check that out!

AGREED.

He mostly spoke about noticing the conditioning of one's mind which, yes, can be very helpful along the pathless path through the gateless gate.

Here , nice video about his life and teachings - > kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gMCCq7yquJ7FnIk.html

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I think leaving the cave is symbolic, the start of your journey toward understanding. So long as you understand that the words and concepts you use to discuss the universe are separate from the true universe then you will never find yourself back in the cave. Note the parallel between the fire in the cave and the fiery sun, both casting light to create projections that we may mistakenly identify as “reality”. That relationship is fundamental to understanding the allegory of the cave.

You're supposed to go within to find your truth. New ager since 08, but I'm stuck. You go find it and then tell me what and where? Thank you so much ❤😊

@@dawnpence3248 I think it's more a case of understanding the nature of truth. In Taoism they say that the Tao that can be named is not the true Tao. Tao is often translated as "the way" (in the sense of the way of being, the natural way of things). Once we start to discuss anything we are no longer discussing it - we are instead discussing the words and ideas that we use to understand it. Words are like signposts to ideas and ideas are symbolic of the thing they represent - the thing that is being described. Think of a grain of sand, we pick it up and we say it is a grain of sand. Then we stand on the sand and we say it's a beach. Then we look out at the water and we say it's a coast. All of these things help us better understand what we are experiencing, but the descriptions are only descriptions. Without us as the observer trying to describe what it is.. it just is. In the words of Alan Watts they are .... and we don't give it a name. Buddha says go away and come back when you no longer desire. Impossible. Desire for lack of desire is desire. Truth is piling words and symbols and ideas onto existence. The more you add the less clearly you experience its true nature, in my opinion.

Better a bigger cave, no?

No, not a Cave, a Womb....the word Matrix means Womb, and when we realize all the Lights in the Sky are within it...we have yet to be Born!@@dannyarcher6370