Covid’s Epiphenomenal Shadows on the Wall

I see a lot of Plato’s Cave allegory playing out in the modern world — the Modern Society Syndrome we’ve been talking about. There is truth out there, but it is being distorted by the light of social media, the mainstream press, politicians and pundits of all stripes. People are so incensed by the shadowy images cast on their Facebook — sorry, Meta — walls that they fail to consider the reality at the center of it all. Demetri Kofinas has a similar view… and it’s the guiding principle of his Hidden Forces podcast. “It’s the idea that we engage with the surface superficiality of life,” he says; “the epiphenomena that are really just the shadows on the cave.”