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The Relationship Between the Authority and the Quest for the Truth
There's a kind of division or distinction between the authoritative realm of opinion that guides the lives of people in politics, and the quest for the truth which only a few can sort of break through towards. In the cave allegory there's a very beautiful detail, as our T's who's telling the story says if a liberator were to come down and liberate one of the cave dwellers turn him around, let him see that he's only been seeing shadows. That person would run back down to the shadows very quickly. And then later he says the liberator if he came down and he told everybody that you know they saw shadows, they would kill him, or they would want to kill