This is a take on the allegory of the cave[0]: > In the allegory "The Cave," Socrates describes a group of people who have lived chained to the wall of a cave

This is a take on the allegory of the cave[0]: > In the allegory "The Cave," Socrates describes a group of people who have lived chained to the wall of a cave all their lives, facing a blank wall. The people watch shadows projected on the wall from objects passing in front of a fire behind them and give names to these shadows. The shadows are the prisoners' reality, but are not accurate representations of the real world. So, basically, the point is that if you only ever see the abstraction, it becomes your reality. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_cave https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_cave