Except for a chosen few like Christ, Gandhi and maybe even Socrates, no one is really enlightened, or has seen what life is all about. ... I seem to think there is another meaning to the Allegory of the Cave. ... Plato considered shadows, art and poetry, what you see is not necessarily what you get. With poetry and art you may be able to read the words but you may not understand the "real" meaning. ...

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