What does the "cave" symbolize? What aspects of human existence or reality does it represent?

Maya

Samsara

>>24513819 (OP)
Cavetube

>>24513819 (OP)
: In Plato's allegory, the cave represents the sensory world or the world of appearances. It's the realm where people are limited to what they can perceive through their senses, which, according to Plato, provides only a distorted or incomplete understanding of true reality. The prisoners inside the cave are trapped in ignorance, mistaking shadows for real objects.

>>24513819 (OP)
Society. Personal convictions. Censorship. Apathy. Human nature. All of the above.

>>24513819 (OP)
I am unsure if these spam threads are really people too dumb to understand the easiest Plato metaphor or if there is some nefarious ulterior motive at play here. Don't try reading something like Sophist if the cave metaphor is too much.

>>24513819 (OP)
a cave

>>24513868
most people don't know

>>24513868
most ppl are very retarded and definitely don't understand Plato's cave ... I had some guy arguing that those chained to the wall are based and "woke" somehow

>>24513819 (OP)
Plato's cave symbolizes my drawing. What do you think of it?

>>24513868
in its simplicity, the cave allows low iq readers either to identify all their opinions onto the metaphor (ie, I am already outside the cave), or are unable to comprehend ideas outside their own and cannot understand the metaphor as a whole (ie, it's stupid). The brilliance of the cave is its downfall, too, but only to the unintended readers.

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