Beautifully written and lots of food for thought here. Achieving some sort of balance between Truth and Connection has been a new challenge for many of us these past couple of years. For what good is Truth if you end up losing those you've loved and have loved you all your life?
Just one critical thought > I do not buy into the part that Fauci practiced a Noble Truth by peddling his ridiculous Masks Forever stance.
A Noble Truth is a non-truth but in order to qualify for being 'Noble' it depends on the deeper motive for stating it. In Fauci's case, his stance is not about any care for the well-being of people for wearing masks, but is driven by his quest to 'boost' anything that supports the Pharma narrative.
In fact it is a prime example of an Ignoble Truth otherwise knows as a Deliberate Damn Lie...
I know everyone idolizes Brett, but to me he has made a career doing exactly what his former friend Harris did: blathering the absolute obvious in pretentious tones.
Thanks for that love your interpretation. Especially when you quote, In addition, a life lived on red pills is an unstable way of being. We spend the whole time tearing things down and disbelieving things so that we leave little room to build things up and to believe in real things. I think it is a cycle but as stated there needs to rebuilding.
I feel I've taken too many red pills. And black pills and then blue and red at the same time. I liked the love story though. The compromise. Lots of food for thought. thanks.
Thank you for this thoughtful essay. For those of us directly impacted by the Covid corruption, it’s easy at times to feel the fervor of Captain Ahab, and that never ends well. Thank you for this excellent reminder.
Appreciated this whole piece... but especially the love story. Mirrors my own experience beautifully, except that I hold Truth and Connection at the same level of need/value and therefore vacillate from "I must tell the truth!" to "I must preserve my relationships!" and back again. It's exhausting and confusing.
A good read. Thanks for sharing. The idea of "too much red pill" reminded me of Christopher Nolan's Inception. Mal tragically loses her reference point to what is actually real.
Pursuit of Wonder created my favorite retelling of Plato’s Cave (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqqeSVYc6Vw), hence my featuring it in this piece:
• “A Mostly Peaceful Depopulation” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/a-mostly-peaceful-depopulation)
Boy that inteveiwer did NOT want to hear what Brett Weinstein was saying AT ALL. He did NOT want to HEAR the evidence NOR FACE WHAT IT WAS TELLING US.
Beautifully written and lots of food for thought here. Achieving some sort of balance between Truth and Connection has been a new challenge for many of us these past couple of years. For what good is Truth if you end up losing those you've loved and have loved you all your life?
Thanks for posting this thought-provoking tale.
Just one critical thought > I do not buy into the part that Fauci practiced a Noble Truth by peddling his ridiculous Masks Forever stance.
A Noble Truth is a non-truth but in order to qualify for being 'Noble' it depends on the deeper motive for stating it. In Fauci's case, his stance is not about any care for the well-being of people for wearing masks, but is driven by his quest to 'boost' anything that supports the Pharma narrative.
In fact it is a prime example of an Ignoble Truth otherwise knows as a Deliberate Damn Lie...
Well, that's the crux of the matter. People don't freaking listen (DFL)
I elaborate on DFL and what can be done to persuade people here: https://robertyoho.substack.com/p/261c6f1e-70bd-4ea7-92e8-aeb74818f571
I know everyone idolizes Brett, but to me he has made a career doing exactly what his former friend Harris did: blathering the absolute obvious in pretentious tones.
Thanks for that love your interpretation. Especially when you quote, In addition, a life lived on red pills is an unstable way of being. We spend the whole time tearing things down and disbelieving things so that we leave little room to build things up and to believe in real things. I think it is a cycle but as stated there needs to rebuilding.
I also found this interpretation useful.
https://www.wakingtimes.com/transcending-cave-matrix/
I feel I've taken too many red pills. And black pills and then blue and red at the same time. I liked the love story though. The compromise. Lots of food for thought. thanks.
Thank you for this thoughtful essay. For those of us directly impacted by the Covid corruption, it’s easy at times to feel the fervor of Captain Ahab, and that never ends well. Thank you for this excellent reminder.
Appreciated this whole piece... but especially the love story. Mirrors my own experience beautifully, except that I hold Truth and Connection at the same level of need/value and therefore vacillate from "I must tell the truth!" to "I must preserve my relationships!" and back again. It's exhausting and confusing.
I wrote a song the other day loosely based around Socrate’s Cave - https://soundcloud.com/jace-maxwell-173761951/down-below?si=26a01ea69eb84d819d40d499fefdba1c&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
I loved this article and commentary! This is great! I had never heard the cave story by Plato. Forced retirement definitely has its’ perks!
I feel like Burgess Meredith in the Twilight Zone who wants to read all day when the world ends. Thank goodness my glasses haven’t broken...yet.
A good read. Thanks for sharing. The idea of "too much red pill" reminded me of Christopher Nolan's Inception. Mal tragically loses her reference point to what is actually real.