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(note: this entry is the final installment of an ongoing series starting with the post “Plato’s Seven Caves”)
…And so, having escaped from the suffocating ideologies of early mankind, and perhaps even the fear of death itself, our human finds himself exploding innovative ideas and visions for improving a world out of balance.  The economy, health [...]
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(note: this entry is part 7 of ongoing series starting with the post “Plato’s Seven Caves”)
Having escaped the grasp of shameless competitiveness and self-assertion (Cave 4), mankind finally attained some level of warmth and inner peace. No more caves. No more hiding. No more survival games. No more hateful manipulation or competition. Just love-warm-love for everyone, regardless of race, [...]
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(note: this entry is part 6 of ongoing series starting with the post “Plato’s Seven Caves”)
Escape from religious dogma (cave 4) freed man’s soul to create in unprecendented ways. As the individualistic worldview took root, core values of ’success’ and ‘prosperity’ shaped a life ethic of bold self-expression and strategic earthly ambition.
So began a time of unequalled prosperity for [...]
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(note: this entry is part 5 of ongoing series starting with the post “Plato’s Seven Caves” )
Having escaped the cave of impulsive power seeking and exploitation, moral man prospered.  World-shaping values of ’sacrifice’ and ‘duty’ took root in his mind, forming a life-affirming paradigm of discipline and humility in the service of a higher, transcendent purpose. Through hard work and moral [...]
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(note: this entry is part 3 of ongoing series starting with the post “Plato’s Seven Caves”)
Having escaped  the cave of animalistic drive reduction, man was confronted with a mysterious and terrifying world. Â
Life and death, day and night passed in rhythmic succession, and he was a helpless observer seeking the good graces of forces larger and more powerful than himself. [...]
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(note: this entry is part 2 of ongoing series starting with the post “Plato’s Seven Caves”)
Early man was much like any ordinary animal. Sleep, hunt, eat, procreate, sleep. With no written language, no bank accounts, no mortgage payments, no religions, no paved roads or stop lights, this simple being was merely present.  Internal tensions (in the [...]
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Plato had a penchant for the allegory. Among his most timeless was the story of a man who, upon escaping from a cave in which he’d been trapped for his entire life, came to realize that all he had ever known was but the whispy gray reflections of shadows from an unseen world. In other [...]
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