Imma need a full report and analysis posted on philosophy memes
this post was submitted on 20 Aug 2024
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I better stop smoking weed then
that's touching grass
More like burning grass...
But it’s a controlled burn 🤓
I lost all of my weed in a series of small fires.
It was arson.
Or do more?
I mean not really, kind of the opposite.
Touch grass is a call to action - to discard the convenient abstractions enabled by words alone, and to embrace the messy, gritty complexity of physical reality itself.
The allegory of the cave is the opposite: a wry lament about the inherent limitations of perception itself. You can't experience physical reality at all; you're just a bot in the chatroom of your senses, and there's no such thing as stepping outside it. Your senses may be a lot more detailed than words, but it's only a matter of degree.
Plato didn't believe we're fundamentally limited by our senses in an absolute sense, though. He leaned toward the possibility of transcending the limitations of sensory perception to grasp higher truths.
I mean yeah shadows in the cave wall is a pretty great analogy for how we see our world through social media not a lot of nuance or detail
teeve/radio before internet, news paper before that and church before peasants learned how to read propaganda.
What is this grass of which you speak? Is it a new app? Does it have haptic feedback when you touch it? I could really go for some haptic feedback.
Dammit, this is a pretty good shower thought. Fine, have my upvote.