The Profound Meaning of Plato's Allegory of the Cave

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  • In this episode we explore Plato’s "Allegory of the Cave", its connection to ancient myths, and the ultimate narrative archetype we know as the Hero’s Journey. Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" is one of the most influential philosophical concepts ever introduced, encapsulating timeless questions about reality, knowledge, perception, and enlightenment. Located in Plato's seminal work, "The Republic," the Allegory of the Cave serves as a metaphorical narrative depicting the human condition's journey from ignorance to enlightenment.
    The Athenian philosopher Plato (c. 428-347 B.C.) is one of the most important figures of the Ancient Greek world and the entire history of Western thought. In his written dialogues he conveyed and expanded on the ideas and techniques of his teacher Socrates.
    The Academy he founded was by some accounts the world’s first university and in it he trained his greatest student, the equally influential philosopher Aristotle. Plato’s recurring fascination was the distinction between ideal forms and everyday experience, and how it played out both for individuals and for societies. In the “Republic,” his most famous work, he envisioned a civilization governed not by lowly appetites but by the pure wisdom of a philosopher-king.
    This script was written and recorded by Agrippa's Diary. Visit their youtube channel - / @agrippasdiary and their IG - / agrippasdiary

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  • @AfterSkool
    @AfterSkool  ปีที่แล้ว +436

    Thank you to Agrippa's Diary for this amazing collaboration. Please check out more of their offerings. If you enjoyed this video and want to help create more, please support After Skool on Patreon. Thank you! www.patreon.com/AfterSkool

    • @PresidentPaul2028
      @PresidentPaul2028 ปีที่แล้ว +11

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

    • @cactusmandan4815
      @cactusmandan4815 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

    • @agrippasdiary
      @agrippasdiary ปีที่แล้ว +16

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

    • @ILikeSkulls666
      @ILikeSkulls666 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @DontReadMyProfilePicture.57ok. I won’t

    • @carefulcarpenter
      @carefulcarpenter ปีที่แล้ว +3

      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.

  • @DavidMayOnline
    @DavidMayOnline ปีที่แล้ว +1089

    When you understand the principle of "The Cave", it's impossible to not see it's effects playing out in the world we inhabit.
    Powerfull presentation, thankyou to all involved.

    • @mickrozycki451
      @mickrozycki451 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      And it just continues to play out.

    • @WiseandVegan
      @WiseandVegan ปีที่แล้ว +6

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

    • @jmnatty2004
      @jmnatty2004 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Be A Human. And be A Constitutional American.

    • @jmnatty2004
      @jmnatty2004 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Cant find a Flag emoji.🤔

    • @jmnatty2004
      @jmnatty2004 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @nolo4449
    @nolo4449 ปีที่แล้ว +920

    Absolutely beautiful. Hardest part about coming out of the cave is finding others who have. It’s so hard to find those who have a truly exited the cave and question their reality

    • @watchjennydisappear5798
      @watchjennydisappear5798 ปีที่แล้ว +58

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

    • @jpp2377
      @jpp2377 ปีที่แล้ว +34

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

    • @aquarian_alchemist
      @aquarian_alchemist ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Use the JQ as a litmus test.

    • @Leaving_Orbit
      @Leaving_Orbit ปีที่แล้ว +58

      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.

    • @Crumbsoftotailtariansim
      @Crumbsoftotailtariansim ปีที่แล้ว +20

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

  • @overlooker9455
    @overlooker9455 ปีที่แล้ว +126

    This channel's the best thing possible for an English teacher like myself who always presents philosophy and mythology on the way. It's pretty incredible that each year I present the Allegory of the Cave in one unit and the Hero's Journey in another or all the other units. This really sums it all up with a great visual to go with it. Thanks for the help guys.

    • @jmnatty2004
      @jmnatty2004 ปีที่แล้ว +4

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

    • @darktimesatrockymountainhi4046
      @darktimesatrockymountainhi4046 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Keep up the great work!

    • @0oo00
      @0oo00 ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @Cmunic8
      @Cmunic8 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jmnatty2004censored by who?

    • @prodigalpriest
      @prodigalpriest ปีที่แล้ว

      Who else? Those who hunger for control. Power.

  • @billcayemberg2104
    @billcayemberg2104 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I share this with my high school Ancient Civilizations class. It is a powerful moment each time we stop and discuss it. Thank you for producing this work!

  • @TampaTec
    @TampaTec 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +64

    Plato was ahead of his time.

    • @tommason8104
      @tommason8104 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      Or is it the times do not change. What he realized of humanity then was, is and will always be the true nature of humans. It is why we must fear AI because in the near future we will not be the most intelligent entity on earth. And in gaining the flawed nature of humans, AI must, in its greater intelligence, remove that flaw as Nature has done for all the presently extinct species. Our continued existence depends on all humanity learning and accepting the Allegory of the Cave.

    • @Hanndig23
      @Hanndig23 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      He still is

    • @brandonaitken1180
      @brandonaitken1180 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      That’s assuming the Greeks weren’t as sophisticated as us, which is absurd. If you were to go back in time and kidnap a baby born in Ancient Greece, and bring it to modern times, that baby would grow up with the same cognitive abilities as modern man, IMO.

    • @ColorsFlight
      @ColorsFlight 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      humanity has always been the same

    • @peterparker9286
      @peterparker9286 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yes we all stuck in the cave. Only enlightened ones know. Go out side and look around...

  • @danceoutnow
    @danceoutnow ปีที่แล้ว +787

    A big piece that needs to be absorbed from this is someone who has not left the cave has no frame of reference for what is outside it. This is one reason for Morpheus's success with Neo in the Matrix when he says "there's no way I can explain it to you. You have to see it for yourself. Don't place all the effort into telling people about the outside, just ask if they are willing to walk. If they aren't, you let them be. If they are, you move forward. Knowledge can't be forced, it can only be received. And if they are unwilling to receive, then will remain chained in darkness no matter what you do or say.

    • @VoxRox
      @VoxRox ปีที่แล้ว +51

      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.

    • @amybe2195
      @amybe2195 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      This guy gets it 👏

    • @oogwayy777
      @oogwayy777 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      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).

    • @realtalk7547
      @realtalk7547 ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @TheOtherKine
      @TheOtherKine ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

  • @petewright4640
    @petewright4640 ปีที่แล้ว +310

    A Tibetan take on Plato's cave: There are some frogs that live at the bottom of a deep well. They have spent their entire lives in the well. One day a frog enters from the outside and tries to describe the ocean. The other frogs can not even begin to comprehend such a vastness. This vastness is Enlightenment.

    • @rollzolo
      @rollzolo ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Did they leapfrog?

    • @petewright4640
      @petewright4640 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@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.

    •  9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      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.

    • @petewright4640
      @petewright4640 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

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

    •  9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @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.

  • @GT4md
    @GT4md ปีที่แล้ว +397

    14:52 "It is not our fault for being raised in these conditions but it is our solemn duty to escape."
    I understand. Thank you.

    • @happinesstan
      @happinesstan ปีที่แล้ว +5

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

    • @GT4md
      @GT4md ปีที่แล้ว +10

      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

    • @djquinn11
      @djquinn11 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

    • @raulvera1998
      @raulvera1998 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

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

    • @irrealislife
      @irrealislife 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@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.

  • @DariusSarrafi
    @DariusSarrafi 27 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Every once in a while I come across something that shakes up my reality and make me "crazy". But I know that old familiar craziness is a stepping stone towards more growth. I took three philosophy classes in college, read the dialogues but stopped at the Republic. I wish I hadn't. I'm grateful for this wonderfully enlightening presentation! A lot of hard work went into this. Thank you!

  • @ronaldvanderboon5268
    @ronaldvanderboon5268 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Even vanuit mijn eigen taal.. wat een mooi verhaal, wat de verbinding maakt tussen de basis van onze beschaving “de Griekse filosofen” en de huidige culture verhalen als the matrix en lord of the rings.
    Het gevaar van het internet met verslaving aan mobieltjes, die het symbool is van de huidige grot van Plato.
    Dank 🙏

  • @emperorlelouch5696
    @emperorlelouch5696 ปีที่แล้ว +52

    I first learned about Plato's Allegory of the Cave back in one of my English classes in my freshman year of college and it was an extraordinary experience to read it because the professor made a good job on explaining it to us and why it's so important. It quickly became one of my favorite pieces of literature ever.

    • @shihtzuwarrior507
      @shihtzuwarrior507 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Read the Symposium i.e. Diotima’s ladder

    • @happinesstan
      @happinesstan ปีที่แล้ว +2

      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.

    • @happinesstan
      @happinesstan ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @owenelmore111
      @owenelmore111 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

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

  • @EvanAndHell
    @EvanAndHell ปีที่แล้ว +25

    Your timing is impeccable… it feels humanity is ready for revelations and revolutions.

    • @lucaswhite2914
      @lucaswhite2914 ปีที่แล้ว

      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

    • @BeepBoos
      @BeepBoos 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Those with ears to hear and hearts to listen 🙏🏼💞🇺🇸

    • @tommason8104
      @tommason8104 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Ah, but what revelations or revolutions? Yours or mine…therein lies the crux.

  • @Beederda
    @Beederda ปีที่แล้ว +177

    Leaving the cave means one must bear the weight of being alone in leaving the cave. You will be thought of as crazy by those you now perceive still trapped in the cave and wanting only to bring them out of their cave will be met with stubbornness and walls, you are not meant to break the walls they place before you. move along with yourself alone and continue to explore. This is what ive found with my leaving the cave, persist and perseverance.

    • @BuddyBooboo
      @BuddyBooboo ปีที่แล้ว +7

      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.

    • @JMc_1
      @JMc_1 ปีที่แล้ว +5

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

    • @HisDudeness59
      @HisDudeness59 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      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.

    • @kristinajackson2014
      @kristinajackson2014 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      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.

    • @Beederda
      @Beederda ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@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 🤷‍♂️

  • @FerozKhan-ss9nn
    @FerozKhan-ss9nn 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This video is so informative that its worth watching for anyone who is interested in learning about philosophy and knowledge. Beautiful voice full of clarity giving insight into the hidden treasures of the knowledge….

  • @dianiluzcora3065
    @dianiluzcora3065 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    This was an amazing and elegant invitation out of the cave. Thank you... 🙏 May the entire World be ENLIGHTENED!!!

  • @wholefoodplantbasedmama5398
    @wholefoodplantbasedmama5398 ปีที่แล้ว +131

    This is interesting. I am a lifestyle medicine educator I have noticed that people resist the information that their health issues are often caused by lifestyle decisions. They do not want to make the effort to change and prefer to blame fate, genetics or others for their condition.

    • @hankyou
      @hankyou ปีที่แล้ว

      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

    • @nickieglazer33
      @nickieglazer33 ปีที่แล้ว

      I would love to have the pleasure of meeting you.

    • @wholefoodplantbasedmama5398
      @wholefoodplantbasedmama5398 ปีที่แล้ว

      hi
      @@nickieglazer33

    • @ferrous8965
      @ferrous8965 ปีที่แล้ว +10

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

    • @0oo00
      @0oo00 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Spoke in the medical industry machine. Be proud!

  • @franciscodiego169
    @franciscodiego169 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    One of the best life lessons for anyone!! No words to thank you for this extraordinary way of explaining the essence of what being human really means! Your deep research, excellent script, excelent line of thought, narration, superb graphics!! I am sharing this jewel with my colleagues and students at UCL and the Institute of Education, friends, family..... this should be part of school curricula worldwide. I wish I had seen this in my secondary school! More please!!

    • @martinwarner1178
      @martinwarner1178 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      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.

  • @caseypenk
    @caseypenk 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

    Thank you TH-cam for giving me this recommendation at a time when I am rethinking my entire life. I was just diagnosed with autism and ADHD and am now figuring out how to proceed in a world that feels unfamiliar. The timeless greats of philosophy provide encouragement and solace in this process, which is fundamentally human from time immemorial.

    • @vumba1331
      @vumba1331 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Enjoy your journey but be careful of accepting the 'diagnosis' of your 'condition', for sometimes it is someones way of categorising you when they truly do not understand you. In other words, do not let them hold you back.
      Go well.

    • @michaelmappin4425
      @michaelmappin4425 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I would point you to the savior, Lord Jesus Christ. The Bible is truth. Read the book of John. It won't take you long. Once you read it, read it again. Next read Romans.

    • @Avocado740
      @Avocado740 4 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      Im sure you are perfectly okay

  • @BerchGerch
    @BerchGerch หลายเดือนก่อน

    This is truly one of the best explainer videos I have ever found on the Internet. Thank you so much for this video!

  • @chaber6419
    @chaber6419 ปีที่แล้ว +119

    The irony is this beautiful presentation is itself a projection inside the cave.

    • @DomFortress
      @DomFortress ปีที่แล้ว +21

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

    • @STho205
      @STho205 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      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?

    • @carlystevenson950
      @carlystevenson950 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Are you a prisoner?

    • @chaber6419
      @chaber6419 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

    • @WiseandVegan
      @WiseandVegan ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

  • @trimleyjeweled1042
    @trimleyjeweled1042 ปีที่แล้ว +2673

    The moment when you realize TH-cam is a modern Plato’s cave…

    • @TornadoOfSouls777
      @TornadoOfSouls777 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      Troof!

    • @Spiritualitygonwild
      @Spiritualitygonwild ปีที่แล้ว +133

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

    • @WILLed_into_Existence
      @WILLed_into_Existence ปีที่แล้ว +196

      All of life is Platos cave

    • @bradleymahurin5582
      @bradleymahurin5582 ปีที่แล้ว +4

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

    • @ΘοδωρηςΝτουσης
      @ΘοδωρηςΝτουσης ปีที่แล้ว +3

      😮

  • @Larkinchance
    @Larkinchance ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Early on in this brilliant clip, I began to see the parallels between the “Plato's Allegory of the Cave” and Neo in the Matrix. Neo's life was a construction of illusions until he is freed to experience the real world. The “Allegory of the Cave” is timeless and we are experiencing it today on computer screens. People can no longer tell the difference between the threat of nuclear war and an action movie...

  • @Chimericwanderer
    @Chimericwanderer ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This is the best representation of "The Cave" on youtube, kudos to the artist and everyone else involved!

  • @bobbeckel5266
    @bobbeckel5266 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wow! An English accent always gives the speaker an aura of intellect. I read Plato's cave when I was 12. It struck me at that time the cave is an allegory of the human eye. All our knowledge of the world is seen as projected on a tiny area in the back of the eyeball.

  • @HillbillyHippyOG
    @HillbillyHippyOG ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Agrippa’s Diary is a new delight I’ve discovered recently. 🙏

  • @ericrawson2909
    @ericrawson2909 ปีที่แล้ว +203

    Thank you for this. It has been an emotionally traumatic few years watching truth denied. I have ceaselessly tried to wake people up, at great personal cost. This video is full of affirmation that I am doing the right thing.

    • @ClassicJukeboxBand
      @ClassicJukeboxBand ปีที่แล้ว +8

      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.

    • @xp1296
      @xp1296 ปีที่แล้ว +14

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

    • @dupeshway
      @dupeshway ปีที่แล้ว

      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.

    • @WiseandVegan
      @WiseandVegan ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

    • @gmw3083
      @gmw3083 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@WiseandVegan Wtf is this place?

  • @darktimesatrockymountainhi4046
    @darktimesatrockymountainhi4046 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Thanks for this! I’ve long believed that many of our society live in Plato’s Cave - accepting what they see on TV, in movies, and on the ‘net as absolute, irrefutable reality. It is maddening to realize they do not live in reality - nor do they even perceive reality.

    • @Lucylou7070
      @Lucylou7070 ปีที่แล้ว

      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.

    • @happinesstan
      @happinesstan ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah, because Plato was critiquing TV and movies.

    • @darktimesatrockymountainhi4046
      @darktimesatrockymountainhi4046 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @Dziad_Gada
    @Dziad_Gada หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    True freedom is found when we leave the shadows behind and seek the light of truth.
    Greetings from the Republic of Sovereigns ❤

  • @Champ-p3h
    @Champ-p3h 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Magnificently narrated and illustrated. The philisophical content that spans through civilisations and across cultures makes an imoerative case for the pursuit of knowledge plus the duty to share it despite the obstacles of the journey. Recommended!

  • @Everyman.0314
    @Everyman.0314 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Thank you. The path is indeed uncomfortable...
    This was beautifully illustrated and narrated. And the text was sweet honey. So comforting and honest. This one was truly special.

    • @happinesstan
      @happinesstan ปีที่แล้ว

      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.

  • @brobsonmontey
    @brobsonmontey ปีที่แล้ว +39

    This is the best, most profound, and most important infotainment video I have watched in a very, very, very long time. It massively reflects my own journey, as I became increasingly libertarian, especially as we traversed the dystopian COVID19 journey.

    • @happinesstan
      @happinesstan ปีที่แล้ว +5

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

  • @JayCozi
    @JayCozi ปีที่แล้ว +39

    This is the second time this allegory has shown up for me in two weeks. John Vervaeke brought it back to my awareness in his 'Awakening from the meaning crisis' series. Definitely worth the watch!

    • @WiseandVegan
      @WiseandVegan ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

    • @jhern083
      @jhern083 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

    • @happinesstan
      @happinesstan ปีที่แล้ว

      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.

  • @Tahitison
    @Tahitison 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Wow, this is profound. Your channel is one of my favorite on TH-cam, incredibly thought provoking, thank you for your amazing work.

  • @omololaakinwunmi8510
    @omololaakinwunmi8510 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The best and profound video on Plato’s Allegory of the cave ❤

  • @kmatcyk
    @kmatcyk ปีที่แล้ว +7

    This video hit home. I needed it. You have had some amazing ones over the years. This one I needed. Thank you.

  • @aapenguin
    @aapenguin ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I feel this video released at such an ideal time. Talk about not taking things as coincidences; I'm currently reading 'The Celestine Prophecy' which I feel ties in really well with Plato's Allegory of the Cave. Trying to understand a deeper importance to our lives. Looking past the material world and trying to find energy we currently have been unaware of that's always existed.
    Growing up is overwhelming, but taking that unknown path by pursuing more knowledge and insight has been quite a fulfilling undertaking. Think freely and question everything!

  • @TheOwlCreek
    @TheOwlCreek ปีที่แล้ว +19

    This video deserves a billion views 👏

    • @kenolson3064
      @kenolson3064 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      7.5 billion.

    • @Crumbsoftotailtariansim
      @Crumbsoftotailtariansim ปีที่แล้ว +4

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

    • @jirislavicek9954
      @jirislavicek9954 ปีที่แล้ว +4

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

  • @PB-bl4mx
    @PB-bl4mx 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This is literally the coolest thing I’ve watched in my entire existence
    Thank you

  • @k3ntv.rhoades
    @k3ntv.rhoades 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Thank you again - may the light be one.

  • @kalandango
    @kalandango ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Linking Plato's Cave with the Hero's Journey was excellent! Thank you!

    • @KN-oq6lv
      @KN-oq6lv 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Is it? I think the bird and the prisoners are not the same. I expect the person I steal from to not be happy with my actions but the people I give the gift to to appreciate it.

  • @therippleeffect1983
    @therippleeffect1983 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Wonderful video with alot of creation, love and wisdom 🤩💯💚🙌

  • @jordan-lz4kg
    @jordan-lz4kg ปีที่แล้ว +4

    this is one of the best videos ive ever seen

  • @theodoraroseti6429
    @theodoraroseti6429 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I love the way you explained this and the parallels you drew between this and other similar implementation of the original idea. Thank you for connecting the dots in such a visual-appealing way!

  • @tommason8104
    @tommason8104 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    My great appreciation for the path to enlightenment explained within is that it does not require any organized religion but instead merely for the individual to see the light and accept it on his or her own terms.

  • @richwalter3107
    @richwalter3107 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Your illustrator does superb work. Hoping they were compensated well and that they are making a good living doing mire illustrating

  • @l.d.velour4552
    @l.d.velour4552 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    One of my favories vids of yours so far. Keep it up, Afterskool!

  • @icewendigo2320
    @icewendigo2320 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    "Most people not only find solace in their ignorance, but also exhibit hostility towards those who challenge their preconceived notion" - Platto
    We have lived this in 2020, the censorship and hostility towards those who challenged the official narrative was unlike anything we have ever seen, a once in a lifetime experience.

    • @happinesstan
      @happinesstan ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

    • @simplecooking9220
      @simplecooking9220 ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @djollyrodjeur
      @djollyrodjeur 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

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

    • @genkiferal7178
      @genkiferal7178 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      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.

    • @genkiferal7178
      @genkiferal7178 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @grumpygardner3059
    @grumpygardner3059 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you for this presentation. I'd never heard of 'Plato's Cave' before but have been experiencing it within the my older life. At an age it seems, people quit improving themselves and succumb to the dumbing down so often those before them have done. My own path has refused that pattern; often to the chagrin of my peers.
    Their loss, my gain.

  • @shaunphillips6160
    @shaunphillips6160 หลายเดือนก่อน

    An absolute masterpiece on youtube.

  • @PatrickKerwin
    @PatrickKerwin ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Great animation. Great script. Great narration. Bravo. 👏

  • @movecolonics9684
    @movecolonics9684 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Incredible. Timing perfect. Thank you.

  • @emmanuelweinman9673
    @emmanuelweinman9673 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    It is so common for people to default to written scripts nowadays… We need more people thinking for themselves! True observation void of bias with natural imaginative thought is a trait so rare, yet so valuable.

    • @blueskymut
      @blueskymut ปีที่แล้ว

      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.

  • @RevolutionaryPrepper-rg9kb
    @RevolutionaryPrepper-rg9kb ปีที่แล้ว

    "The mind that opens to a new idea, never returns to its original size." - Plato
    A great quote by a great philosopher! Plato was a philosophical genius!

  • @charitybull
    @charitybull 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Really wonderful. If all education was presented in this manner we would find much higher acceptance of complex subjects

  • @asiawilk
    @asiawilk ปีที่แล้ว +7

    These videos are always exceptionally made, thank you! This one is great

  • @indubious_nod9924
    @indubious_nod9924 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Thank you for the profound lesson, Gandalf.

  • @RM-ke3sj
    @RM-ke3sj ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Wonderfully told and illustrated. Thank you.

  • @wireloop8619
    @wireloop8619 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Other than my first reading of Plato decades ago, this is by far the most clear, precise and entertaining presentation of The Cave I've ever experienced. Thank you for this excellent creation. If you ever decide to edit it, then I'd suggest a mention of both Christ and Moses as a type of Prometheus.

  • @buru1871
    @buru1871 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    not the first time i heard any of this. yet it was quite, a reaffirming experience to hear it once again, as we move through life’s stages. thank you for the content

  • @Wilson12857
    @Wilson12857 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Gives new meaning and perception as you get older. This never gets old but unveils new ways of thinking about life and our situations.

  • @evolutionnotrevolution4475
    @evolutionnotrevolution4475 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Wow. This is so timely!! Synchronicity at play again. Thank you 💚🙏

  • @dingodog5677
    @dingodog5677 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    Beautifully done. The matrix also includes the character who chooses not to venture out and prefers the comfort of the matrix. How many of those who left the cave went back, chained themselves back up and watched the shadows?

    • @happinesstan
      @happinesstan ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

    • @Diggles67
      @Diggles67 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      The Matrix movie is a retelling of Plato’s cave.

  • @MichaelBath-xv5bd
    @MichaelBath-xv5bd 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Exellent..
    I was first introduced to "Plato's Cave" at school 60 years ago
    It made no sense to me at the time,
    I was in my 40s when I delved deeper into Greek Myths, and Philosophy
    Reading about Prometheus, and I recognised the !ink.
    This simple way of putting it, makes me realise that Socrates was right all along
    "One think I know, is that I know Nothing"..
    I wish this could have been made as simple when I was at school.
    I have been practising "Street Epistomology" for 8 years now..
    Which can also be found on You Tube....
    Thank you..🍷

  • @peggymog
    @peggymog ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you so much for this education. It was not standard for my experience and how more meaningful it is in my ongoing journey of enlightenment. Thank you , 56 and still trying to see.

  • @ugsskywatchermckenzie4319
    @ugsskywatchermckenzie4319 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    *Amazing collab, Amazing video* 👏

  • @sleep7220
    @sleep7220 ปีที่แล้ว +59

    Finally Plato’s cave is getting more recognition 🎉

    • @Failzz8
      @Failzz8 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      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.

  • @Mark73
    @Mark73 ปีที่แล้ว +211

    I have two problems with Plato's Cave
    1. Everyone thinks that they're the ones who have left the cave and that everyone else is still stuck inside looking at shadows.
    2. There is no leaving the cave. There's only a series of larger and larger caves.

    • @homeistheearth
      @homeistheearth ปีที่แล้ว +8

      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.

    • @jdwyer5708
      @jdwyer5708 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@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.

    • @philippeamon7271
      @philippeamon7271 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@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?

    • @RevolutionaryPrepper-rg9kb
      @RevolutionaryPrepper-rg9kb ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Good point, touche'!

    • @julieq3910
      @julieq3910 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ​@@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.

  • @terencebrunette1855
    @terencebrunette1855 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Wow such a brilliant video and there's also a correlation I think to the story of Adam and Eve being expelled from paradise, the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Also the stories of Job and the Prodigal Son. Well perhaps the correlation is a little fuzzy at times but the underlying messages seem to reinforce each other rather nicely.

  • @EDayanaGloriaG
    @EDayanaGloriaG 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This the best explanation for Allegory of the Cave, I am really grateful that I found this video.

  • @ZafOsophy
    @ZafOsophy ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Quite simply, fantastic episode 🙏

  • @mystic_alchemist
    @mystic_alchemist ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Another beautiful collaboration, keep going!

    • @AfterSkool
      @AfterSkool  ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Will do. Thank you!

  • @susankenneally4618
    @susankenneally4618 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    The holographic power grid... otherwise known as the flickering shadows on the wall....is actually created by your own consciousness, your mindstream, reflected ''out there'', based on your perceptions, beliefs and conditioning. When you truly see this, and know this in your deppest knowing, it is both profound, liberating and somewhat depressing. It takes a lot of courage to keep going, with this understanding. Things that do appear, are a type of apparition, your imprinting on empty space. It's all a construct. It's all consciousness. The divine dance of light, taking on a form. God, in disguise in all, and nothing, and everything in between. As within, so without.

  • @TampaTec
    @TampaTec 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This is so interesting well done, I highly recommend Chronicles of the Future book 📖. The book is based off of Paul Dienach Journal and his near death experience from 1920s.

  • @axle.student
    @axle.student 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Very well created video presentation. Well done.
    Thank you for creating this. More people need to see this.
    >
    Last, I often feel somewhat bewildered that even modern scholars reject this, even when scientific evidence validates beyond rational dispute. Many will never escape the cave, and worse the many will force the others to accept the cave as the only reality and live in eternal torture.

  • @JustOneWillingSoul
    @JustOneWillingSoul หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Truly they almost universally hate you, mistrust you, and assume you are crazy and dangerous on your return. If they could get away with crucifying you, they would. It is eventually discovered that it is not your job to save them, indeed it is impossible to do so. You cannot wake people from the matrix. A tiny handful are compelled to awaken on their own. Functioning in society after exiting the cave is virtually impossible. Perhaps in the end this tragedy gives way to the comedy that underlies it. Sending love to all those who have awoken and now bear the cross of knowing the truth in a world of illusion and deceit. Stay strong.

    • @gond9166
      @gond9166 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      “When the student is ready, the master appears.”
      - Alan Watts

    • @JustOneWillingSoul
      @JustOneWillingSoul หลายเดือนก่อน

      @gond9166 Watts said that? I thought that was a Buddha quote. Oh well, in either case, it is correct.

  • @natyalmighty
    @natyalmighty ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Excellent video 🙌🙌 describes very well the allegory of the cave as part of the hero’s journey. Impressive images and symbols about the golden pyramids, kundalini energy, the creators dragons, the distorted shadows and the fire of healing and enlightenment.

  • @3I6M9
    @3I6M9 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    I am so glad more people are discovering this

    • @WiseandVegan
      @WiseandVegan ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @andrewwebb9426
    @andrewwebb9426 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What a brilliant video! I’m 78 so hardly still at “skool”, but it taught me a lot in an entertaining way. It’s a long time since I was at skool but I still don’t think philosophy is taught to British children. Mores the pity. It puts us in our humble place. I’ve endless school passes and two engineering degrees but what little I’ve learnt about philosophy, and how it has influenced us all, has had to be self-taught since retirement.
    Perhaps our UK governments haven’t ever wanted us to think? It’s so much easier to deal with a population that has been persuaded to believe that sports results, shiny cars, stylish clothes and new kitchens are the most important things in life!

  • @dreamchampagne
    @dreamchampagne 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    15:22 absolutely brilliant ❤

  • @henryi9738
    @henryi9738 ปีที่แล้ว +119

    This is the original Matrix story, and it ought to be made into a movie.

    • @thesage90
      @thesage90 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Definitely

    • @highvibefreqzshow5967
      @highvibefreqzshow5967 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      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).

    • @helmeteye
      @helmeteye ปีที่แล้ว +19

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

    • @Read-Nh-Hb1778
      @Read-Nh-Hb1778 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@highvibefreqzshow5967 you are not free at all

    • @qarljohnson4971
      @qarljohnson4971 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      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.

  • @1mouth2ears
    @1mouth2ears ปีที่แล้ว +108

    The problem is that everyone THINKS they've left the cave.

    • @gabrielb426
      @gabrielb426 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      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.

    • @Travis-du2ml
      @Travis-du2ml 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

      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..

    • @gabrielb426
      @gabrielb426 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

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

    • @Luschan
      @Luschan 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      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.

    • @Steve-fk6js
      @Steve-fk6js 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

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

  • @kingdompreparation6943
    @kingdompreparation6943 ปีที่แล้ว

    Excellent video! I used "The Cave" in gang education classes all the time. Most people had never heard of it before, but it was most useful to introduce philosophy and how to apply it to real life!

  • @TheRealSandman
    @TheRealSandman 28 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I find this all so fascinating. I've been thinking of concepts for a new album & I'd really like to have some themes of the cave & the meaning behind it in the album

  • @KingSolomon55
    @KingSolomon55 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Fantastic work

  • @neebo95
    @neebo95 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    Damn, that's a powerful voice.

    • @trog.lodyte
      @trog.lodyte ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ​@DontReadMyProfilePicture.57stop spamming the comments bro.

    • @radagast7200
      @radagast7200 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Reminds me of Christopher Lee.

  • @caseypenk
    @caseypenk 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Plato’s Allegory of the Cave is such a profound reflection of the human condition writ large that it makes you wonder how it’s even possible for a human mind to comprehend such a thing, let alone create such a theory. It is literally incomprehensible.

    • @altongoodin4677
      @altongoodin4677 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      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.

  • @Herb-t4c
    @Herb-t4c 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    My first exposure to Plato’s Cave. Excellent! Thank you.😎

  • @eileennovak1656
    @eileennovak1656 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This wisdom is needed NOW more than ever.

  • @KenMoss2986
    @KenMoss2986 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Thank you for this. I came out of the cave many years ago in the sixties when I read "Plato's Republic" but find it increasingly difficult to get others to join me, especially after the intense government/MSM propaganda machine made the cave more suitable for the sheep who dwell there.

    • @tomw9599
      @tomw9599 ปีที่แล้ว

      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.

    • @JoshDil93
      @JoshDil93 ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @djollyrodjeur
      @djollyrodjeur 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You're still IN the cave!!!

    • @devinkipp4344
      @devinkipp4344 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@JoshDil93 care to explain

    • @JoshDil93
      @JoshDil93 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@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.

  • @Wuddleboo
    @Wuddleboo ปีที่แล้ว +15

    It’s funny how many people in these comments claim they have “escaped” the cave. Believing in conspiracy theories and being an obnoxious know-it-all to your friends does not mean you’re enlightened, it means you’re annoying.

    • @mrpassion90
      @mrpassion90 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      No disrespect. What is the premise with this message? This concept infacts is timeless and has profound meaning. Look what happened with Socrates. If you over and understood laws, your response wouldn't have been necessary. He or she that goes through life without question is the annoying, misleading, and true ignorant one. I hope my message didn't annoying you, but get you to embark on your own heros journey.

    • @kellymartin3575
      @kellymartin3575 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@mrpassion90my friend it is the perspective of the many people who see things differently than yourself.

    • @alexmangrum90
      @alexmangrum90 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@kellymartin3575 good luck with that 😅

    • @sixsixsix1634
      @sixsixsix1634 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Could mean homosexuall

  • @rakanoriginal
    @rakanoriginal ปีที่แล้ว +11

    The moment you realize that you get out of Plato's cave into a larger cave searching for the myth called " Reality".

    • @dannyarcher6370
      @dannyarcher6370 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Better a bigger cave, no?

    • @greensage395
      @greensage395 ปีที่แล้ว

      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

  • @futurehistory2110
    @futurehistory2110 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Imagine if these types of videos were the most popular on the internet; that would be a wonderful, intellectual society.

  • @yellowleaf28
    @yellowleaf28 หลายเดือนก่อน

    WELL DONE ! The illustrations boosted the words by a million. (And are a brilliant way of introducing concepts non-threateningly).

  • @g.traurus9052
    @g.traurus9052 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    Matrix explained by the Greek philosopher thousands of years ago...😮

    • @Woodman-Spare-that-tree
      @Woodman-Spare-that-tree 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      There’s nothing new under the sun.

    • @dynamicguy202
      @dynamicguy202 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Right?! I’ll watch those movies again with a new perspective
      Very interesting video. This makes a lot of sense. I used to dismiss philosophy but now will reconsider it

    • @g.traurus9052
      @g.traurus9052 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@dynamicguy202 if you invest your time and read ancient greek philosophy your life will change for the better. This is something I can guarantee you.
      Socrates, Plato, Pythagoras, Aristotle and many more wil show u the the way.

    • @mattjenkins682
      @mattjenkins682 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Explained by the Upanishads long before Plato. Go back to the beginning. It's all in the Vedas. You'll notice every idea was already thought, explored, debated, and explained. Just like all these modern theories of everything, all just reworked ideas from the Upanishads.

  • @Isenseven1080
    @Isenseven1080 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    When I first read Allegory of the Cave 13 years ago at age 20, my mind was truly opened. It significantly changed the way I think and allowed me to see how manipulated everyone is. Very angering. It's disgusting. Money is an illusion.

    • @azsunburns
      @azsunburns ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Politics is the second

  • @brentperkins505
    @brentperkins505 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    At1:02 the narrator refers to the reality that has been programmed into us. This is an over simplification of how we "take-in" reality. While social programming is certainly one way to learn "reality". there are other methods for acquiring reality such as putting one's hand in a hot flame.

    • @angelosenteio
      @angelosenteio 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      We call this learning the hard way.

  • @C322C
    @C322C ปีที่แล้ว

    I read this in 2009. I offered to do an assignment for a girl that I worked for. It absolutely changed my life.

  • @donniepayne9786
    @donniepayne9786 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I am sincerely grateful for all the real truth . I really appreciate the format in which you deliver information. I sincerely support the good work you are doing. That we are doing.🥰

  • @voltanzapata8024
    @voltanzapata8024 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Out of the darkness comes light 🌕