Allegory of the Living Room

[Philosophy Now]

Joe S. Kimbrough II wonders if our condition is better than that of Plato’s prisoners.

https://philosophynow.org/issues/108/Allegory_of_the_Living_Room

[Nick_A]

Very true. It makes one wonder what intelligence and slavery are

"The difference between more or less intelligent men is like the difference between criminals condemned to life imprisonment in smaller or larger cells. The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like a condemned man who is proud of his large cell.

"... All that matters is that he has come to the end of its intelligence, such as it was, and has passed beyond it. A village idiot is as close to truth as a child prodigy. ..."
Simone Weil - Human Personality

Yet it is true. Human beings are proud of their own slavery