O.G. Rose | Belonging Again II.1: Chapter I of Book 1 (Presentation) @O.G.Rose.Michelle.and.Daniel | Uploaded October 2024 | Updated October 2024, 1 day ago.
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Memory is a funny thing, prone to change with use. Details fade, episodes arise which never happened, and gaps appear wholesale. We never remember everything (we’d go crazy if we did), but we like to think we remember what matters, and most of the time we do, or at least we maintain enough of “the general picture” to “get the gist.” For everyday life, this is fine, but something funny happens with books, especially great books. In complex texts like Plato, forgetting a single detail can transform the meaning and impression of entire sections, and if memory is shaped by “the spirit of our age,” details we tend to forget or remember will likely be relative to and reflect that zeitgeist. When it comes to Plato’s most famous allegory, I think something like this has happened…

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For the full II.1 Playlist:
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