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To: TideGlider who wrote (985358)	12/2/2016 9:27:11 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570684

Marcus Aurelius. Watch this one cartoon, please. I read Plato's the allegory of the cave when a teenager and it changed my life. Here is a three minute cartoon that explains it. Plato figured this out 2500 years ago. youtube.com I once did a paper trying to find any great thinkers after the ancient Greeks were pretty much totally destroyed by the birth of Christ. Marcus Aurekius stood out as one of the few smart people. In a nutshell, I was able to find no one for the next 1500 years to compare with tens if not hundreds of the great Greek thinkers. It wasn't until Gutenberg invented the printing press in 1457 and they started printing new books again that new thinkers started to rise comparable to the ancient Greeks. The ancient Greeks, were almost operating at the level of modern thinkers. They were so smart. As mentioned, one of the most important books I ever read in my life when I was young was: "the allegory of the cave" by Plato. It is not only very powerful, and very prescient, but he figured out 2500 years ago what modern science is just validating today.