Plato's Allegory of the Cave
The New Thinkery
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The Puppeteers and the City
Alex Shraus: The puppeteers seem to be the poets. They're said to hold up images of, you know, sort of cutouts, I guess, of the things outside the cave. But when they're brought down, they're not like running around like a mad man,. Like Nietzsche's mad man saying, God is dead. Just a sort of me," he says. "I'm most fearful that I inhabit the place of the poets"
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