they don't know

3 years ago by Sabo_Tabby to c/memes

Thteven 37 points 3 years ago

I am so here for philosophy memes.

For the curious - Plato's Allegory of the Cave

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blanketswithsmallpox 5 points 3 years ago

This helped a lot with the meme format... Less so with the joke itself lol.

The irony of not being able to tell if it's a self deprecating meme about enlightened channers or legit incelism is moderately scary lol.

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MBM 2 points 3 years ago

I don't think it's either, the joke is just that they combined Plato's cave with a meme template (see the "They don't know" section)

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blanketswithsmallpox 1 point 3 years ago

ShrekLayers.gif

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Dohnakun 4 points 3 years ago

Here's a text source

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Early_To_Risa 13 points 3 years ago

Are philosophy memes next?

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nekat_emanresu 10 points 3 years ago

Can we truly be sure that we know what a philosophy meme is without first understanding ourselves and the context surrounding the meme?

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abbadon420 3 points 3 years ago

Is our culture defined by our memes or are our memes defined by our culture?

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barter 10 points 3 years ago

Fucking amazing

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dona1dquixote 10 points 3 years ago

Genius

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Obsession 9 points 3 years ago

This meme is fucking amazing and I hate that I can't share it with my normies friends

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preciouspupp 2 points 3 years ago

Just send the link?!

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pirate 9 points 3 years ago

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cantstopthesignal 7 points 3 years ago

For those wondering. There was a philosopher (Descartes or Plato, someone old) who posed the question: what if everything we see before us is just shadow puppets put in front of us by some higher power. The conclusion was that we would have no way of knowing. Kind of where the idea for the matrix came from.

Edit: it was Plato

"Plato’s story- Allegory of the Cave- describes a group of people who lived in a cave all their life, chained and facing the wall. Only seeing the shadows before them, the group granted them names, thus becoming prisoners of the imaginary dark images on the wall."

https://medium.com/change-your-mind/shadows-on-the-wall-91c8a89ea5ef#:~:text=Plato's%20story%2D%20Allegory%20of%20the,dark%20images%20on%20the%20wall.

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cerberus 5 points 3 years ago

this is way too deep for my tiny brain

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pozbo 3 points 3 years ago

This shit is tight.

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nekat_emanresu 2 points 3 years ago

Good luck telling them without dragging them out.

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RatoGBM 1 point 3 years ago

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Dohnakun 1 point 3 years ago

So i guess this is about the "people" people having a more shallow understanding of the world than the book people?

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Lordgeoffery 1 point 3 years ago

Umm I'm pretty sure being chained wasnt fun lol but since it's metaphor I'm cool

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