Is it all for hysteria purposes? While I do notice and understand how media apparatus is working right now, how far will this go? The sheer insanity of all this is starting to pinch me a little bit. If anyone can brief me, I would really appreciate it.
Yes, I noticed exactly this. I do not know theory terms like “Plato’s cave” though. They are targeting the people that live in the Hegelian dialectic echo chambers and manipulating with the effect that internet outreach has these days.
Plato’s cave is the philosophical allegory asserted by Plato, wherein people within a cave with no experiences exterior to the cave are shown shadows on the wall. The allegory assumes that because the inhabitants are only familiar with the shadows on the wall, their frame of reality is integrally bound to those shadows. I.E. their only understanding of the world, is their understanding of shadows.
This is really interesting. Seems like what are today run-of-the-mill subreddits.
I’ve recently started reading Plato. Some view Plato, not Marx, as the first communist thinker