The first post

Plato created an allegory about perception. This allegory has been the template upon which the Occident has stamped its collective footprint on reality. The Allegory of the Cave has been celebrated as a highpoint in Western thinking. It has given the world the neoplatonic ideal of the Christ (the Form of man), it has hindered our scientific investigation of the world (remember, Plato was a rationalist, one who attacked the natural philosophers for getting their hands dirty by actually doing experiments). It wasn't until the West realized that Bacon is a good diet for the mind that we began to leave our caves and discover ways of looking at the sun without going blind. Plato has even crept into our pop culture through movies like "The Matrix." It is time to put Plato in his place and question some of the assumptions that many have accepted as axiomatic and dogmatic truths. Plato's flashlight will shine on the shadows. Perhaps we can create our own forms on the wall of the cave.