Sunday, October 3, 2010

Plato's Cave animation from Youtube

I think I may have posted this before,(see October 2008) but it's worth looking at again.




It is the last sentence or two that gives me food for thought.
Beginning at timerrame 7:14 minutes Plato Says:
It is the task of the enlightened, not only to ascend to learning and to see the good, but to be willing to descend again to those prisoners and to share their troubles and their honours, whether they are worth having or not, And this thing is due, even with the prospect of death. They should give of their help to one another, wherever each class is able to help the community.
 What might this be saying to me about going back into the cave, having spent my years in the glorious sunlight of art-college?