We are all live in some kind of Platonic cave on the Internet.

Plato's cave
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Kimmo Huosionmaa

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When we are talking about traditional philosophical question named as “The Plato’s cave", we must understand that we all live in some kind of cave. That question about the cave is that we all get the limit of information. And one reason for that is that we read about different kind of questions. We all also see a different kind of programs and we all have a different kind of opinions about everything. Everybody is not interested in same questions. There are many people who are not interested in SETI-programs. sometimes we forget that we are the worst censor officers for ourselves. We don’t read things, what we don’t want to read. And we don’t want to hear the opinions of the people who seem boring.


The marketing system makes everything that we don’t have to face boring people in our social media and social network, what guarantees that we can get only the information, what we want to see. That makes to use the application comfortably. Of course, those people don't take note, that some people maybe don't like same things, and keep the same kind of clothes. They might have some allergies, what makes some clothes very uncomfortable for them. But there is still danger, that social media gives us the information, what feels good and as you might understand the truth sometimes hurt.

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We see only the things what we want to see, and we are unable to justify ourselves. All of us want to be the to be persons who have the strong self-criticism but we can’t be objective to ourselves. When people make crimes, they sometimes indicate that action with “necessary evilness”. They say that when they attack against some other people or steal property that somebody forced them. They want to see that those people made the right thing. The reason for the crime was “lack of money” or “defense of somebody else”. And of course, the target for violent actions was somebody who has been beaten his wife or kids or at least raped somebody. This is very often used defense in the court of law.


And there are lots of people, who don't care about what was the winning car in 1968 car race in Indianapolis even if that is the most important question for the person, whose hobby is the muscle car. But when we are looking for the truth, we must say, that there are many versions of the truth. And what’s making people interested in some question, is the massive lobbying against it. When we are looking for Plato, the great philosopher, we must realize that this man is very popular in some societies. There is one reason why Plato’s wise advice is been so popular.


The reason for that is in his book “The state". In Plato’s ideal state is clear social class structure, and if you are born in some level of society, that thing sets your position for rest of your life. And that’s why that philosopher was so popular in the European noble societies in 18 century. If modern society works like Plato’s society, that will, of course, be the very attractive thing for the people, who are in control of the state. In that “ideal state" is impossible to raise in social ranking, and that’s why the leaders of the state will be safe from revenge what their ex-henchmen would give them. In the state of Plato were strict levels of society, and many people don't know that there were same sub levels in every level of that state.


If you were the soldier in that society, you will be the helmet soldier. Behind those soldiers were commanders of the phalanx and in the highest rank were philosophy soldiers, who made strategic plans for those men. And of course, there were also “philosophy Helots" whoever does nothing. They just said where new bridges will be built and where the field must be clear. But they didn’t do the jobs themselves, and that is one very important thing, what must be understood when people are talking about the slavery. There is always men and women in the slave society, who lead the other slaves.


If we want to be honest with ourselves the lowest ranking men in the military are only the hand who does, what some commanders say. And those commanders are under the control of the philosophers, the leading class of the state of Plato. And the philosophers have also ranks. The lowest ranking philosophers gave the orders to the soldiers, but he made that using philosopher soldiers as the receiver. The people were told that there were disorders, and that was the reason why militia came to restore order. And the “order” was what the highest rank members of the society want. And normal people must not even know what has been happening when men of the city went to war.

But when we are talking about the information, we might say that we are our worst censored. Everybody knows how difficult is to read about things that are against our moral way of thinking. We want to see that we all make right things and our actions will be legalize and same time justified as the right action.


And the worst thing in the world is to notice that we are only human beings who make mistakes. But as somebody said that the person who never makes mistakes have ever tried nothing. The human being makes mistakes, and that is the thing that we must realize. Computers make always mistakes too. The mistakes of computers are the reason for programs what have malfunctioned. And do you know who makes those programs? The human being who might be tired stressed, sad or hurry. Those things will cause that there might be very big errors in the computer work.