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hey I just thought that if you have anything you hate and don't like or are mad about put it here and We will talk about it or just listen to your complaints!

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Telyse

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ooooo....(I was being sarcastic Holly and you were caught in the blowback. I humbly apologize).

You want a Rant(a real goddamn rant, which I guess none of you bastards are capable of)? Well here goes goddamn it. Dont expect it to make sense, I don't even have a topic in mind, I'm just gonna write.

Ive just left a philosophy class of mine which raised a lot of questions I was unable to get answered or debate over. We were talking about Plato's allegory of the cave, how if there are a group of people chained to the wall of a cave, only able to see right in front of them and blind to what happens behind them, that is all they will ever know. But when one of them is forced from the cave into the world, he will eventually come back to the cave to share his newfound wisdom. Those still in the cave will not listen to him, he is the enemy. He is trying to destroy their way of life. This little allegory can be applied to every society. Now comes my point.

We were discussing the possibility of true individualism. There are many people who consider themselves an individual, you see them all the time. The funny thing is, for being individuals, there are tons of them. So how can a society of individuals actually be individuals? Especially in this age of fake knowledge accessible since childhood. Everyone knows that Victoria's Secret makes attractive underwear for women. Wait, why do we know that? The goddamn media feeding us this knowledge since birth. Or how about people who get huge spacers in there ears thinking "oh yeah, now I'm original", meanwhile there are thirty other people in the same school who have exactly the same thing. The Professor was explaining the ancient Greek philisophical notion that knowledge and individualism only comes from a true oneness with Nature. So we apply that to the modern world, but what do you know, there are hundreds of "individuals" joining greenpeace and becoming treehugging hippies only to realize that "oh no!" they're not as original as they thought. Basically the Professor was telling us an oxymoron. The only way to become wise is through knowledge, yet in a world where all knowledge is fabricated, the only knowledge available makes you incapable of logical thought and therefore stupid. Then something came to me. In a society of false knowledge, the only real knowledge would come from isolation. So to become wise, to become knowledgable, one must remove themselves from their generational society and relinquish all ideas gained from living among them. But what kind of life is that? So you're stuck, basically. Well, not all people. There are people who are completely content with isolation. But in a generation full of visual and audible impulses, wouldn't that drive most mad. Even if it doesn't, the person has been exposed to false knowledge too long. Any ideas of true knowledge are contradictory to every instinct he has. That is unless you were raised in isolation. But then, where does the want for knowledge originate from? The demand for true knowledge comes from those filled with false knowledge, but then those not introduced to false knowledge would have no real want of true knowledge. So is true knowledge a myth, an unobtainable reality that poets speak of and only fools strive for?

So where is the cave?

Is the cave the society? Yes. In a society of conformity, there cannot be true individuality.

Is the cave found in isolation? Yes. Were it not for the false knowledge of society, there is no need for the true knowledge found from isolation.

So how do we leave the cave?