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The Platonic Ideal of a Vulva
Plato is worried about the things that are going on in his own days. He's worried that the Athenians are going to go all imperialistic again and things will work out badly. So he can reference back to the Persian invasions and the 300, also to wars that Athens has fought in the past as well. There's mythical areas he can go to as well. Myths are good to think with, they help us think. The story of Plato's cave is that a man in a cave who never left the cave would believe that the shadows were real. It's something I'd even like to talk about in my stand-up. But I wouldn't say that I'm