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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's like if the shadow casters in Plato's allegory of the cave got tackled and the people trapped inside the cave learned that they're being suspended in an illusion of reality, but now the people in the cave are mad because the old shadows aren't convincing anymore and they want shinier shadows to keep them entertained.

This statement resonates and deserves to be extrapolated upon.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Writing my Master's Thesis in Hexbeariology on the synthesis of UlyssesT thought and Greek philosophy.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

But you came up with that bit up there, not me. I'm not a tech billionaire, I don't want to steal credit!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

shrug-outta-hecks the negation of the negation retains attributes of the original phenomena but is also distinct from it, thus the dialectic advances.