What up Interverse?Josh here from Polymathics,
the YouTube channel that helps you
become a modern-day
renaissance man and today
we actually gonna talk about a
renaissance man so to speak
and we're gonna talk about Plato and for
those of you who are unaware
Plato is very famous for a lot of things
but one of them is a his analogy of the
cakes
and before I get into that were actually
want to do is cool
Aristotle who is Plato's teacher
home who said and
okay when I think we'll I'm actually
paraphrasing so
bear with me here he sensually said
that's all
wise men our walkies because they know
that they don't know everything and
because they know that they don't know
everything
they constantly search for more
information
they constantly search for wisdom
fools on the other hand he said
think they know everything and therefore
they don't look
for more information and they never fine
with them
again that's a paraphrase not exact
quote
know the reason why I'm telling you this
is because it highs directly and to
Plato's analogy the case and
I'm not going to read of word for word
if you want to I'm sure there's YouTube
videos that actually do that
and there's also you can look it up on
the Internet I
trust in your Google Flu you can
karate judo chop search
that and you'll be able to figure it out
you be able to read through it but
essentially the
the main story here is that play-doh
was trying to explain for me my nose
itchy
who's trying to explain
what happens when someone goes through
revelation
when someone is in lightens when someone
has not hit any
essentially what he said was it's like
being in a cave where there's a fire
behind you in your kind of chained
up it so that fire casts
light it in your direction
but along the cave wall in front view
all you see are the shadows
and they move back and forth and so you
believe that those shadows
are the real world you believe that that
is the only truth
that exists in the world what's going on
shadows
but then what happens is in
his analogy the K a cave he
the a person
their chains are unbound and they're
released
and at first their little scared they're
not sure what to do
but eventually they move up in a they
like you know the touch the wall AC it's
just the wall and
the been they start to explore the
Cayman a see that there's a fire there
and that what the fire does
is it casts shadows along the wall in
that
that those shadows are really the
reality of it all
they're not everything that exists in
the world and then
then what happens is as the person
explores even more
they come to realize that that
dear you know that there in just the
cave in
they they look more more they find
opening only come out into the opening
totally blows their mind because thief's
they see the Sun for the first time
which is this giant fire in the sky way
bigger than a little thing that wasn't
the case
and illuminates everything
in for the first time the sea
the world for what it really is
they realize house small their world bus
and so they've gotten it had discrete 50
and they wanna share it with all the
others who were locked up in chained up
with them
into the run back into the cave and they
go to the others they try to tell them
about this great fire her in
in the Sun end all that all the things
they saw
outside at the Cape and how beautiful it
looks but
because the others are still chained in
shackled
they can still only understand
the shadows on the wall
and the they don't they don't
necessarily believe
the person who's been enlightened and
so the reason why I'm sharing
this with you is because as we are on
our life's journey
in particularly those of us who are who
consider ourselves to be
Holy Mass and are trying to to follow
the polyMet paradigm and
follow in the footsteps of great
thinkers like
Aristotle and Plato we're going to have
the same kind of difficulty and
if it hasn't happened to you already a
guarantee you it will
and that is you're going to have
revelations as you come across these
beings and
people who are still locked in the
shackles
love their own small reality
are not going to realize the greater
picture in the bigger world
and are
we see this throughout history time and
time again
Columbus is a really good example over
I'll
OVA past renaissance man who who
saw the future and he wasn't the only
one who thought the world was round
but he was one of the few people at the
time
in that hi
0 %uh respectable position I guess you
could say
that was willing to say
speak out against the the popular Fox
the world was flat and its
it's that same kind of mentality that
we face every day there are
genuine people out there who have great
brilliant ideas
in their shunned because society isn't
ready unshackled themselves and it goes
back to aristotle's
quote about the wise man
and the full so
if if there happens to be you and
you're caught up in that struggle just
bear with it and
in eventually the world comes around a
force play it's not always
on our timetable and unfortunately
sometimes we don't get to see
but the world does come around
eventually
the truth will come to light but if that
is the case
you just have to you you know
ok stay calm but and and press on
persevere
and if I can talk about
10 my other favor authors which is
Robert Green
in the 48 laws of power one other things
he talks about I can't remember the
exact law but it's essentially
up think what you wanna think in your
own mind
but in your outward actions appear like
everyone else
and that's essentially so people think
you're crackpot you may have
really brilliant great ideas but if they
go too much against the grain
then people will really persecute you
we've seen it throw history so
you you don't want to be the person who
is
fighting for so much change it's such a
rapid speed bed
it a totally derails
your cause because nobody is on board
that makes any sense and
so anyways spotlight has been some in
you know insightful
least now you're near with the
allegory of the cave by Plato and
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