For those wondering. There was a philosopher (Descartes or Plato, someone old) who posed the question: what if everything we see before us is just shadow puppets put in front of us by some higher power. The conclusion was that we would have no way of knowing. Kind of where the idea for the matrix came from.
Edit: it was Plato
“Plato’s story- Allegory of the Cave- describes a group of people who lived in a cave all their life, chained and facing the wall. Only seeing the shadows before them, the group granted them names, thus becoming prisoners of the imaginary dark images on the wall.”
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this is way too deep for my tiny brain
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This shit is tight.
Are philosophy memes next?
Can we truly be sure that we know what a philosophy meme is without first understanding ourselves and the context surrounding the meme?
Is our culture defined by our memes or are our memes defined by our culture?
Good luck telling them without dragging them out.
platos-rave
This meme is fucking amazing and I hate that I can’t share it with my normies friends
Just send the link?!
Explanation pls
I am so here for philosophy memes.
For the curious - Plato’s Allegory of the Cave
Here’s a text source
This helped a lot with the meme format… Less so with the joke itself lol.
The irony of not being able to tell if it’s a self deprecating meme about enlightened channers or legit incelism is moderately scary lol.
I don’t think it’s either, the joke is just that they combined Plato’s cave with a meme template (see the “They don’t know” section)
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For those wondering. There was a philosopher (Descartes or Plato, someone old) who posed the question: what if everything we see before us is just shadow puppets put in front of us by some higher power. The conclusion was that we would have no way of knowing. Kind of where the idea for the matrix came from.
Edit: it was Plato
“Plato’s story- Allegory of the Cave- describes a group of people who lived in a cave all their life, chained and facing the wall. Only seeing the shadows before them, the group granted them names, thus becoming prisoners of the imaginary dark images on the wall.”
https://medium.com/change-your-mind/shadows-on-the-wall-91c8a89ea5ef#:~:text=Plato’s story- Allegory of the,dark images on the wall.
Fucking amazing
So i guess this is about the “people” people having a more shallow understanding of the world than the book people?
Beautiful
Umm I’m pretty sure being chained wasnt fun lol but since it’s metaphor I’m cool