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God, I fucking hate Plato's Republic
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I had to read Plato's cave for a philosophy class and this tracks. My generous suspicion is that the ancient greeks didn't separate the concept of a lecture from that of a play... and so you get absolutely lousy "plays" in which there's a sycophantic and/or zoned out student that plato keeps asking questions of to make sure they're still paying attention.