08-28-03

I wish i were chained in a cave

Uh huh, did i say i liked Modern, Knowledge and Self? I lied. Very boring, lets see how many times i can say the same thing over and over again w/o anyone catching on. The blonde in the corner blinks twice and twirls her hair. Let me just set the stage for you… outside, sun is shining, starbucks frozen thing in my hand, ladybug crawling all over me, looking at the teacher like he is the second most stupid person on earth (no one beats the Bushman) as he goes over the fact that we need to liberate ourselves from the cave for the eigth time in an hour. Boy in the corner asks a question, teach stumbles…ah..ah…and…he DISREGAURDS the question. Now i understand that Plato’s world view was steeped in idealism, but telling me that i am questioning the validitiy of his argument b/c i am raised in the era of postmodern is bullshit. its like saying…”don’t question the idiot, his view point is from the era of dumbass and therefore valid in his time, but you are questioning it simply because you were raised on sesame street.” NO. Plato believed in absolute truth, somewhere out there you will find absolute truth (if you smoke enough of the cheeba), but it is out there. So how can something be truth if it is proven invalid…even years later. But it was truth then…fuck dat shit! Maybe we are confused with the word “truth,” i know its alittle ambiguious, but i think thats just because you come from the post modern era…fucks.

And then theres the fact that the entire piece “the Cave” is hypocritical. I refuse to sit there and take any analyzation of the contextual matter of the piece seriously. Of course we are in caves…of course in order to liberate ourselves we must no longer look at the shadows on the wall but find abstract reasoning….but i find the snow on t.v. caused by bad reception works just as well. But what if when we get to the dialectical thought it turns out to be just another shadow on another wall. Ok, i will admit that that is a very postmodern viewpoint, yes, but seriously, how pompous is Plato to think that that is it, abstract reasoning, that that is IT. $IT=’The liberating piece to set us aside from everyone else.’ Um, no. That my dear is just another shadow you are reading. A little ditty put together to trick you into your positions in life. You were meant to be liberally educated, here is where we insert the ego boast, feed the “eternal desire to be better than thou” and “poof!” entertain you sad fools chained in the cave with an allegory about the exact fucking cave you are sitting in. No thank you sir. We will never truly understand what it is we are in search of for we will always be distracted and chained to walls. Not that i a.) am complaining or b.) would mind it terribly because chains are fun, and walls, bedposts, trees, i dont care.

That was my spiel thank you for listening, since no one else will.

~shell