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Plato's Allegory of the Cave

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The Paradox of Enlightenment

I think enlightenment philosophy is sort of is parasitic on the cave, right? It lends us to think, oh yeah, the cave is super familiar. And I think this is why some of the people we study with are think, find enlightenment and modern philosophy so dangerous. They get a glimpse or think they get a glimpse of some eternal truth that's deeply unsettling. So philosophy can be disorienting. There are dangerous truths. And it's a serious thing. You don't even realize you're still in there two or three layers down. If you can in any way identify something that is a shadow in the wall of the cave,. Don't wake me up. Greg, don't I

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