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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This helped a lot with the meme format... Less so with the joke itself lol.

The irony of not being able to tell if it's a self deprecating meme about enlightened channers or legit incelism is moderately scary lol.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I don't think it's either, the joke is just that they combined Plato's cave with a meme template (see the "They don't know" section)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

ShrekLayers.gif

[–] Early_To_Risa 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are philosophy memes next?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can we truly be sure that we know what a philosophy meme is without first understanding ourselves and the context surrounding the meme?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Is our culture defined by our memes or are our memes defined by our culture?

[–] Obsession 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This meme is fucking amazing and I hate that I can't share it with my normies friends

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Just send the link?!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Fucking amazing

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago
[–] cantstopthesignal 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

For those wondering. There was a philosopher (Descartes or Plato, someone old) who posed the question: what if everything we see before us is just shadow puppets put in front of us by some higher power. The conclusion was that we would have no way of knowing. Kind of where the idea for the matrix came from.

Edit: it was Plato

"Plato’s story- Allegory of the Cave- describes a group of people who lived in a cave all their life, chained and facing the wall. Only seeing the shadows before them, the group granted them names, thus becoming prisoners of the imaginary dark images on the wall."

https://medium.com/change-your-mind/shadows-on-the-wall-91c8a89ea5ef#:~:text=Plato's%20story%2D%20Allegory%20of%20the,dark%20images%20on%20the%20wall.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

this is way too deep for my tiny brain

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

This shit is tight.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Good luck telling them without dragging them out.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So i guess this is about the "people" people having a more shallow understanding of the world than the book people?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Umm I'm pretty sure being chained wasnt fun lol but since it's metaphor I'm cool

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Explanation pls

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