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Re:Most of What We Read on the Internet is Written by Insane... by SolaceQuantum on Friday January 11, 2019 @01:49PM (#18885808)
I'm kind of confused here- you mentioned Plato, but wasn't Plato a professional culture generator?
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Re:Most of What We Read on the Internet is Written by Insane... by Zuider on Friday January 11, 2019 @02:40PM (#18886186)
The reference is to Plato's allegory of the cave. Prisoners are chained so they are facing the back wall of a cave. Puppeteers project a play of shadows onto this wall and the prisoners, knowing no better, take this show for reality, when in fact, reality lies outside the cave. The OP was comparing the shadow-players to the professional cultural generators.

https://faculty.washington.edu/smcohen/320/cave.htm

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Re:Most of What We Read on the Internet is Written by Insane... by brokenmachine on Sunday January 13, 2019 @09:43PM (#18900227)
Interesting. A 400 BC version of the Matrix!

Thanks for that.

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Re:Most of What We Read on the Internet is Written by Insane... by stcredzero on Friday January 11, 2019 @01:57PM (#18885864)
I'm kind of confused here- you mentioned Plato, but wasn't Plato a professional culture generator?

Note, I didn't say that everything professional culture generators produced was fundamentally wrong and poisonous and would instantly result in your mental and spiritual death.

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