Philosophical Dictionary

Prisoners chained in a cave take shadows for reality. One gets out, sees the sun, and comes back to tell the others, who laugh at him and would kill him if they could. Here is a simple summary of Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, what every symbol means, how it connects to the theory of Forms, the sun and the divided line, why it ends with a threat of murder, and why it still describes our screens today.

A  philosopher's toolkit for empowering critique of the powerful through the lens of Mel Brooks' "The Producers" and Hannah Arendt's concept of the "banality of evil." Though humor and satire you, too, can speak up, knowing everyday evil is only human.