tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5041624883246722973.post4694503021761968464..comments2022-11-11T04:13:56.292-08:00Comments on In a Strange Land: Shadows on the Wall: Plato's Cave in Second LifeIggy Ohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10834075825456226770noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5041624883246722973.post-60870564591517305592010-05-24T09:35:38.549-07:002010-05-24T09:35:38.549-07:00Kate--I came out a long time ago.
Most of us wi...Kate--I came out a long time ago. <br /><br />Most of us will stay in the cave, until the oil begins to get scarce enough so "mall" equals local farmer's market and barter location and "media" is the remnant of the Internet and the locally printed broadside.<br /><br />Resource scarcity and the end of techno-triumphalism will lead us out of the cave and into not the desert, but the green fields of the real.Iggy Ohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10834075825456226770noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5041624883246722973.post-17796267453182102672010-05-24T07:07:58.101-07:002010-05-24T07:07:58.101-07:00Oh, come out of the cave! There are real actors e...Oh, come out of the cave! There are real actors employed to tell stories on television and news of real events. There are real people shopping in the stores for goods to get on with their daily lives.<br /><br />A bit fictitious? But really I think that there is a type of intellectual snobbery in removing oneself from what is the modern equivalent of the village well where people gather to exchange news and thoughts. In today's world the agora is the media and the mall.Kate Mirandahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17740956164355102313noreply@blogger.com