"Touching grass" is the modern equivalent of Plato's allegory of the cave

Comments

• ComicalMayhem@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Imma need a full report and analysis posted on philosophy memes

  source

  • pH3ra@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I better stop smoking weed then

    source

    • crawancon@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      that’s touching grass

      source

      • -> View More Comments
    • slazer2au@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Or do more?

      source
• TheBananaKing@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

  source

  • Hackworth@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.

    source
• pedrosky@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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

  source
• Boozilla@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

  source
• BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Dammit, this is a pretty good shower thought. Fine, have my upvote.

  source
• 10_0@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I call people plugged in when I try to talk to them but their in their phone

  source

  • Mr_Blott@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You mean to say “… but they are in their phone”, which can be shortened to “they’re in their phone”

    The clue was in the fact that you had “their” twice, so one of them must’ve been wrong!

    source