The Allegory of the Cave is more relevant than you would think. Let us walk you through Plato's dialogue with Glaucon.
What is a cave? Who is there? Are you there?
And after that, we took a turn and thought: "What does the future hold for us?" Are we going to be a conformist dumb-dumbs or something else?
Oh, and we caved in and asked DeepSeek some questions. Listen before we get cancelled.
Source:
Plato's Cave https://thelatinlibrary.com/legacy/plato/cave.html
Mahayana Buddhism: ://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahayana
Diotima and The Oracle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diotima_of_Mantinea
If you crave a different version of The Ode of Joy, good luck!
How do you like our cave effect? Was the sketch fun?
Special thanks for the cover art to Kalle!