I find in Jadziajadzia's photographic ode to Plato a harbinger of what I hope ensues at this weekend's "Everything Must Change" event taking place in Charlotte's Area15 this weekend (on 15th & N. Davidson, opening at 6 pm) with the Brian McLaren gang. Now the sunshine, indeed.
now sunshine -
'(...) And now look again, and see what will naturally follow if the prisoners are released and disabused of their error. At first, when any of them is liberated and compelled suddenly to stand up and turn his neck round and walk and look towards the light, he will suffer sharp pains; the glare will distress him, and he will be unable to see the realities of which in his former state he had seen the shadows; and then conceive some one saying to him, that what he saw before was an illusion, but that now, when he is approaching nearer to being and his eye is turned towards more real existence, he has a clearer vision,--what will be his reply?'
Plato, The Allegory of
the Cave, Book VII of 'The Republic'.
Translated by Benjamin
Jowett
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