Thursday, August 10, 2023

We are making our own Plato's caves.


This is the modern version of Plato's cave parable. Sometimes I wonder why people don't say that Plato's Cave is a thinking test. The idea is that something that can story of radioactive fallout can force some small group of people inside the cave. 

The outsider actor keeps them inside the cave using threats that can be real or imaginary. And because those people have no Geiger meter. They cannot be sure if is there some kind of radioactive fallout outside the cave. 

Plato's Cave is a thinking game about controlled information. The actor who is outside the cave can tell any kind of story to people in that cave without any other than selected contacts with the outer world. The question is always this. Do you dare to see things outside the cave? If there is a story about dangerous radioactive pollution out of the cave, we must realize that we need very much courage to find out if that story is true. 

And then those people need just believe that thing. The idea is that those people will not dare to come outside their cave. And the reason for that is the story that there is radioactive radiation and some kind of monsters outside the cave where those people think that they are safe. 

We think that the metaverse and the net make us free, but the problem is that we select people around us who please us. Those people are so-called easy people. Those persons have the same values, thoughts, and ideas as we have. And that thing makes us our version of Plato's cave. We don't have to hesitate with people who think different ways than we think. And that turns our social life homogenous. We hear things that we want. And we hear only things that we want. 



We should be more networked than ever before. But the problem is that we should read what our social media fellows write. So that we learn to understand them. If we don't read comments, and what those people write, we cannot get any new ideas from social media or any other media. We can keep our TV set on when there is some news. But then we can spend our time in the refrigerator while the news is on the screen. And in that case, we will not hear or learn anything. 

The problem is that we cannot hear excuses and other ways to make something. We see only one way to handle many things. There could be choices that could offer more than we even can imagine. But because we have some kind of strong opinions, we must not hear those choices. If we want we can let other people think about things. And in that case, we offer our right to think for some other people who might not even care about us. 

If we want to think radically, there is a possibility that wind generators and wind parks can also serve as defense systems. Those rotors can equip with radar antennas and if we want, those systems can send microwave radiation against the attackers. But those arguments ever heard about those things. That kind of thing can make the protective field in some areas. Or this is how Nikola Tesla thought. But normal people think that those wind generators are just ugly things. 

That is one way to see things. The fact is that many people see the world differently than Nikola Tesla, the man who invented remote-controlled and induction generators. Many people make mistakes in working days. Some of those mistakes are made by those people who make those non-successful works.  

In some cases, things like programming tools are not working in the programmer's workstation. The group leaders just forgot to order access to those tools. That is urgent for programming. Or sometimes, the group leader tells that some programmers must do things. By using some special method that is sometimes very old-fashion. And not suitable for modern programming.  Also if a programmer must always do some other things while that person should program that thing makes the person unable to make work as it should be done. 



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