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Color I suppose, since it’s more vivid and stereotypically trippy, but there’s actually no strong cues besides dude breaking into that side. Could argue the other way as well… transcendence = set aside maya and see world as it is or something
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Really surprising and interesting that that is ambiguous for you! Yes, this depicts the Platonic scheme in which the Really Real World is Elsewhere and we life in Fake Nogood World, but you can somehow “transcend” Fake World to see The Ultimate Truth. Yucch.
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I very much agree with this, but the image can also be seen as representing a deconstruction of experience—a necessary step in gaining some control over it
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The lesson from Plato's allegory of the cave should have been that we can consciously manage our projections, not that we can escape illusion altogether! He did a terrible mistake! Can we roll back and start philosophy over please?
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Yes; image presented without context. I made it last night to illustrate an essay that I hope to post in the next couple days. If I ever get a time machine, Plato is Job One. I will take several extra clips, to be damn sure.
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In The Patterning Instinct, tells a history where the patterns we associate with Plato has roots much further back, to the PIE culture at least, with important influences from Egypt as well. I think it would be much harder to set history right than to take out Plato.
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