Plato was the father of Gnostic philosophy. Christianity and Catholicism are both extremely Gnostic. Whatever reason early Catholics had for burning his books I would suspect it was not out of actually antipathy to his core ideas. The Republic, as you probably know, is where Plato and Socrates cave metaphor comes from. Its very interesting because the book is about how people think and what sort of perfect democracy everyone should have.
It's more like the other way around where Gnostic took from Christianity and Catholicism and behaved in ways that can come across that "the Abrahamic God is evil". Obviously no Christian, Jew or Muslim is going to tolerate that.
The only way that democracy according to, arguable, the people who invented it could function was to censor everything that the public was exposed to such an extreme the public were basically living in virtual reality, only made of shadows on the inside wall of a cave they were chained up inside, and they were so completely consumed by this limited reality that they thought it was the whole world because they were never exposed to anything different.
The only way that democracy according to, arguable, the people who invented it could function was to censor everything that the public was exposed to such an extreme the public were basically living in virtual reality, only made of shadows on the inside wall of a cave they were chained up inside, and they were so completely consumed by this limited reality that they thought it was the whole world because they were never exposed to anything different. Democracy requires extreme censorship to exist. Basically the public has to be kept like little children to the point they believe everything that the oligarchs who actually own the country tell them and then make them feel responsible for it with voting. Social Media is the successful embodiment of trapping people in a cave so they can have a completely censored reality so they can be successfully lied to about where power exists in society. Democracy was a trick from the time it was invented in Greece and it is still a trick now.
That was "Jewish" democracy i.e. illusion of choice while the society is strictly controlled by several elite groups and wasn't there before Freemasonry aka the church. Greek "democracy" is a whole different thing, not to mention that Greek and Roman civilization is defined by the encouragement of independent thought and even some Chinese Empires encourage it.
You do not see the cancel mobs, extreme intolerance, multiculturalism, enshittification and Bible mythology being passed along like history before the Jews came in and told everyone that Jesus and Solomon are real (and not mythical figures), a God that encourages mass genocide is benevolent and if you are a free person you will be boiled in excrement and fire.
But back to social media.
I do not believe that Social Media itself is inherently evil because back then Myspace, Youtube and Twitter existed and they weren't the oppressive entities that are modern social media (and other information tanks are still there to keep these powers in check). Back then you can pretty much say or post almost anything you want on YT or Twitter, but this isn't the case anymore post-Gamergate and especially not after the UN took over all of the social media and rigged search algorithms so you can no longer access anything but MSM.
And that's not even getting into AI-generated content and the potential that these forced concaves will sooner or later be forcing everyone to dox themselves to even use it. In fact it will happen for EVERY site that requires a log in to contribute that has survived past that point, which this site will decidedly not.
It would be safer to say that Social Media itself isn't the embodiment of mass entrapment to Zealotry akin to the Dark Ages, but the mass compromising of Internet culture by the same group of Zealots that plunged Europe into the Dark Ages is. And it seems like the entire world is going to hell in the same way and by the same people like Europe did back then.
I also find it really ironic that the people who have personally enabled this sort of system (Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates etc.) will fall prey to the monster they created. Soviet Russia has their own Soros, Gates and Zukerbergs. These oligarches might had been lobbied the Commies, but when Lenin and Stalin started purging every oligarch and Jew, they are the first ones to be purged. There is no wonder on what will happen to the likes of Zuckerberg and Gates when Antifa and Neo Nazi murder gangs start occupying the States and sacking datacenters for potential black lists.
