I lead you into my man cave and instead of stuff like video games or whatever a man cave would have there's a wall that the sun cast it's light on

And I tie you to that wall and erase all your memories so now the shadows on the wall are all you've ever known

I have a bit of an impression that Klarion's story in Seven Soldiers of Victory was inspired by "Plato's cave" theory. Klarion was the one who finally came out of Limbo Town (the "cave") and saw the real world as it is and not just its shadows.

Weak omega bitch

You mock me because of your own ignorance, because you have been trapped in a cave for your entire life, head forced to look forward onto the shadows of puppets before a fire. You know nothing of the true nature of reality. I have seen the world, with all of its beautiful colors and shapes, and yes, its smells. You call me omega because I have known the scent of an alpha's musk, yet you do not even know the scent of an omega's slick when they are in heat. You are a fool in Plato's cave, rejecting the knowledge I bring you, of dominant omegas and submissive alphas, of betas and zetas and secondary genders you cannot even fathom. It is not your fault. Can you blame a man when his own eyes fail to identify the colors told to him by a shrimp? To a mantis shrimp, we are all fools trapped in Plato's cave. We may not be able to comprehend the colors of a shrimp as we only know the shadows of a cave, just as you are not able to comprehend my superior knowledge of the omegaverse. I do not blame you for your ignorance; we do not choose the caves we are chained to, nor the puppet shows we are forced to watch in a mockery of reality. I only blame you for your weak ass insult. Who cares if I'm an omega? Talk to me when you've seen shrimp colors, idiot.

"It's like Plato's Cave, X-99... Earth guy. A philosopher. Actually, he was a professional wrestler. But when his philosophy teacher died, he took all his teachings and published them under his own name. Huge hit. Brilliant man. Plato said that we live in a cave, where all we're shown is illusions. Shadows that are but vague imitations of reality. And that as we challenge our assumptions and grow, we come out of the cave, seeing the world for the first time as it really is. But Plato had it backward. We don't emerge from a cave into the truth of the world. We start in reality. And then, with each passing day, we move a little deeper into the dark warmth of the cave. Until we grow so confortable with the shadows on the wall that we forget there ever was an outside world."

Future State (2021): Superman. "Superman Vs Imperious Lex. Part #3."

I like plato's allegory of the cave because it expressed what I feel every time I see a Yugioh fan who only watches DM stuff.

Maura + Daniel / 1899 S1E7

"Plato described ordinary life as unthinking, lived in a dim cave of shadowy reflections, but said that it is possible to leave the cave and see things in sunlit clarity as they actually are.

Huston Smith

so many people would turn around and leave the cave if the shadows didn't also have a clip of subway surfers below to keep people entertained

I have been thinking about Plato's allegory of the cave a lot recently. No wonder everyone is so anxious seeing they are being told to fear everything.

The Frog in a Well -- We Are the Frog, and Our Tiny Imperfect Limited Perceptions of Reality is the Well of Our Confinement

Baba Ram Singh: "Sawan Singh Ji Maharaj used to tell this story quite often. Once a swan came after a long flight over the seven seas. He came and sat on a tree, which was above a well. So, this swan came and sat on top of that, and there was this frog in the well below this tree. The shadow of this bird was falling on that well below. So, looking at that shadow, the frog looked up and saw this bird perched on that tree, and then it asked this bird who it was."

So, he said, “I am a swan. I have traveled the seven seas and I have sat on this tree to take some rest. After that, I will travel further.”

So, the frog asked the swan, “What do you mean by ‘the sea’?”

The swan told the frog that, “This is a large mass of water.”

And then, the frog took a small circle within the well, and pointed out and said, “Is it this big?”

So, the swan said, “No, it's much bigger.”

Then, the frog took a round about half of the well and said, “Is it this big?”

Again, the swan said, “No, it's much, much larger.”

So, the frog again took a bigger circle, covering about three-fourths of the well, and asked whether it was that big.

So, the swan said, “No, it's much larger.”

Now, the frog was quite annoyed, and he took a full circle of the well and asked whether the sea was this big.

And the swan said, “No, it's much bigger.”

Now, the frog was quite angry, and it abused the bird, and said, “Oh, you are lying to me, because you're saying it's more than this. Is there any water more than this big?”

"So, unfortunately, the frog had grown and lived and, all its life, it was only in that well. So, it had never seen anything beyond that; whereas, the bird had flown the seven seas. It had seen everything outside, and it was relating the truth that it had seen. And the frog was trying to understand it in relation to its own life and its own experience."

-- From, Setting Your Consciousness Free from Illusion to Experience the Heavens Above -- Spiritual Awakening Radio Podcast @ Wherever You Follow Podcasts: https://linktr.ee/SpiritualAwakeningRadio

Free Guy is such a perfect example of coming out of Plato's cave... I love this film so much

Plato's Cave (Animated Version)