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Plato sent humanity down a solipsistic self-destructive path by detaching truth from one's community.

The allegory of the cave was deliberately staged like Greek theater. Greek theater had a communal effect on the Greeks: it was a specific time and place for the Greeks to gather and share in communal feelings and insights. Essentially, Plato said with his allegory: "Stop partaking in the theater. Stop participating in your community. Your fellow Greeks don't know anything. The artists are deceiving you. Truth can't be found there."

Strictly speaking, he was correct; truth, in the most objective sense, couldn't be found at the theater, from art and community. But personal, communal feelings — subjective truth — could be, and public ritual such as Greek theater was pivotal to maintaining the community and said truth. Plato obliterated all intellectual respect for the community and since then civilization has sought to turn communities into crowds of "objective" individuals. Modern day cities consequently have almost no sense of community in them. They only have crowds of people who do not share anything communal with each other, do not even pay attention to one another. They are each lost in their own little worlds, chasing after their little ideals. The perfect setup for the highly isolating, cold, consumerist, porn-obsessed, disrespectful rape box of a world we live in today.

tl;dr Plato ruined everything and Platonists should eat shit.

I am drunk. I rarely get drunk. Is there some sort of Dionysusian ritual I can perform to maximize the utility out of this scenario? Yes this is literature related jannie because it has to do with Nietzsche.