Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted, clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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"Touching grass" is the modern equivalent of Plato's allegory of the cave (lemmy.ml)

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When we get too involved in online matters, disconnecting from the internet and getting a hold of the real world is an analogy to the Greek Philosoper's work

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[–] TheBananaKing 26 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I mean not really, kind of the opposite.

Touch grass is a call to action - to discard the convenient abstractions enabled by words alone, and to embrace the messy, gritty complexity of physical reality itself.

The allegory of the cave is the opposite: a wry lament about the inherent limitations of perception itself. You can't experience physical reality at all; you're just a bot in the chatroom of your senses, and there's no such thing as stepping outside it. Your senses may be a lot more detailed than words, but it's only a matter of degree.

[–] Hackworth 10 points 5 months ago

Plato didn't believe we're fundamentally limited by our senses in an absolute sense, though. He leaned toward the possibility of transcending the limitations of sensory perception to grasp higher truths.