THE ALLEGORY OF THE EURO

FROM PLATO'S DEBT REPUBLIC

[Socrates] And now, I said, let me show in a figure how far our nature is enlightened or unenlightened: --Behold! human beings living in a underground debt cave, which has a mouth open towards the sun light of solvency and reaching all along the cave; here they have been indebted from their childhood, and have their legs and necks encumbered so that they cannot move, and can only see the spectacle that is projected before them, being prevented by the chains of indebtedness from turning round their heads. Above and behind them a EURO fire is blazing at a distance, and between the EURO fire and the prisoners there is a raised way; and you will see, if you look, a low wall built along the way, like the screen which bankster marionette players have in front of them, over which they show the Ponzi puppets.

[Glaucon] I see.

[Socrates] And do you see, I said, the banksters passing along the wall carrying all sorts of vessels, and statues and figures of animals made of wood and stone and various materials, which appear over the wall? Some of them are talking derivatives mumbo jumbo, others silent.

[Glaucon] You have shown me a strange image, and they are strange prisoners these debt prisoners.

[Socrates] Like ourselves, I replied; and they see only their own financial shadows, or the shadows of one another, which the EURO fire throws a debt spectacle on the opposite wall of the cave?

[Glaucon] True, he said; how could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads?

[Socrates] And of the objects which are being carried in like manner they would only see the shadows?

[Glaucon] Yes, he said.

[Socrates] And if they were able to converse with one another, would they not suppose that they were naming what was actually before them?

[Glaucon] Very true.

[Socrates] And suppose further that the debt prison had an echo which came from the other side, would they not be sure to fancy when one of the passers-by spoke that the voice which they heard came from the passing shadow?

[Glaucon] No question, he replied.

[Socrates] To them, I said, the financial truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the ponzi images.

[Glaucon] That is certain.

[Socrates] And now look again, and see what will naturally follow if the debt prisoners are released and disabused of their financial errors.

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 solvent 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 indebted state he had seen the credit spectacle 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 solvent and real existence, he has a clearer vision, -what will be his reply?

And you may further imagine that his instructor is pointing to the objects as they pass and requiring him to name them, -will he not be perplexed? Will he not fancy that the shadows which he formerly saw are truer than the objects which are now shown to him?

[Glaucon] Far truer.

[Socrates] And if he is compelled to look straight at the light, will he not have a pain in his eyes which will make him turn away to take and take in the objects of vision which he can see, and which he will conceive to be in reality clearer than the things which are now being shown to him?

[Glaucon] True, he now.

[Socrates] And suppose once more, that he is reluctantly dragged up a steep and rugged ascent, and held fast until he 's forced into the solvent light of the sun himself, is he not likely to be pained and irritated? When he approaches the light his eyes will be dazzled, and he will not be able to see anything at all of what are now called financial realities.

[Glaucon] Not all in a moment, he said.

[Socrates] He will require to grow accustomed to the austere sight of the solvent world. And first he will see the shadows best, next the reflections of men and other objects in the water, and then the objects themselves; then he will gaze upon the light of the moon and the stars and the spangled heaven; and he will see the sky and the stars by night better than the sun or the solvent light of the sun by day?

[Glaucon] Certainly.

[Socrates] Last of he will be able to see the sun, and not mere reflections of him swimming in debts, but he will see him in his own proper place, and not indebted in another; and he will contemplate him as he is, a debt free man.

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No this time is definitely not different...