> Our written corpus is but a particular reflection of this reality - the shadows on the wall in Plato's cave if you will.

The irony here is that us humans (both individuals and collectives) experience a very "Plato's-cave-esque" version of reality, pretty much by design. The same Ancient Greeks built a functioning civilization that gave the world logic and physics and philosophy while believing utter nonsense about themselves and the world. We, the enlightened modern humans, also believe all kinds of nonsense about ourselves and the world, and have careful defense mechanisms against exploring anything beyond the "shadows on the wall" that we're allowed to observe by our tribal authorities. How many people still watch the "news", or even read "horoscopes", for instance? We are designed by evolution to simulate a tiny biased shadow/hallucination of reality that helps us/our tribes to thrive, and that includes self-delusions and collective blindness towards obvious BS (so we could organize around imaginary, but evolutionarily beneficial causes).