When we get too involved in online matters, disconnecting from the internet and getting a hold of the real world is an analogy to the Greek Philosoper’s work

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Imma need a full report and analysis posted on philosophy memes

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I better stop smoking weed then

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that’s touching grass

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More like burning grass…

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Or do more?

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I mean not really, kind of the opposite.

Touch grass is a call to action - to discard the convenient abstractions enabled by words alone, and to embrace the messy, gritty complexity of physical reality itself.

The allegory of the cave is the opposite: a wry lament about the inherent limitations of perception itself. You can’t experience physical reality at all; you’re just a bot in the chatroom of your senses, and there’s no such thing as stepping outside it. Your senses may be a lot more detailed than words, but it’s only a matter of degree.

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Plato didn’t believe we’re fundamentally limited by our senses in an absolute sense, though. He leaned toward the possibility of transcending the limitations of sensory perception to grasp higher truths.

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I mean yeah shadows in the cave wall is a pretty great analogy for how we see our world through social media not a lot of nuance or detail

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teeve/radio before internet, news paper before that and church before peasants learned how to read propaganda.

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What is this grass of which you speak? Is it a new app? Does it have haptic feedback when you touch it? I could really go for some haptic feedback.

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Dammit, this is a pretty good shower thought. Fine, have my upvote.

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