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R7 The Cave | Plato's Republic, book 7 w/ Ben Morison

Ancient Greece Declassified

CHAPTER

Are the Shadow Casters Responsible for Creating the Information?

The people who are holding up the statues are basically poets. They are responsible for putting into the thinking life of ordinary people these stories, these unreal stories about people. And then the fire behind them casts the shadow of the statues and dolls that they're holding on to the back wall of the cave,. which the prisoners, the unreleased prisoners, see.

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