Well... Are you? Can you handle the question I'm about to give you right now? Well ready or not here it comes! Have you ever heard of Plato's Cave which originally appeared as a dialogue in his Republic? Well for those of you who haven't I highly recommend you at least watch the video of the allegory or even buy Republic, which I happened to do today because I was so fascinated by the story. Anyways back to the question, in Plato's Cave the man returns and tells grandiose stories of the world beyond the cave but no one believes him because the prisoners' reality is only shadows and echoes. Therefore perception is reality and reality is what we see it to be, but what if we don't really know what reality is? What if the reality is really a myth? What if we are all unknowing prisoners in the cave?
Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
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