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Möbius Pretzel
Plato’s ‘The Allegory of the Cave‘ is from book VI of his most famous
work, The Republic. He begins ‘The Allegory‘ by describing a dark cave
found underground where a group of people are sitting in ‘one long row
with their backs to the cave’s entrance’. They are chained to their
chairs from an early age and all that the humans can see is the
distant cave wall in front of them. Their view of reality is
completely based upon this limited view of the cave which but an
unenlightened view of the real world.
The puppet-handlers, as Plato calls them in his allegory, represent
the prominent, authoritarian members of society (i.e the Government)
who live inside the artificial paradigm that they have created for the
rest of us.
http://politicaltheatrics.org/2009/09/29/allegory-of-the-cave-meet-your-puppet-handlers/