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