The Myth Of The Cave
Is Plato's most famous parable - about getting more connected with reality: Imagine people are chained sitting in a cave looking at a wall on which they see nothing but the shadows of real things behind their backs. One of the people breaks free and experience true reality. But he can not explain it to his fellow men, because they lack the experience and the vocabulary to understand him.
This is the Matrix story: People living in a simulated reality. Neo escapes the matrix and gets on the journey to free the others.
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Plato is such an influential thinker: our version of Christianity and some of the most popular movie franchises can be traced back to him.
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