Tending Plato's Elephant

Plato was a warrior and statesman, and a slave-owner to boot. Given the chance, Plato would have locked us up in a cave and forced us to tend the elephant.

"Tending Plato's Elephant" is a short essay by Karl Jones.

Tending Plato's Elephant

People forget that Plato was a warrior and statesman, and a slave-owner to boot

Given the chance, Plato would have locked us up in that cave and forced us to tend the elephant

Commentary

Origins

A mix of "Prisoners in Plato's cave" and "Blind men tending Plato's elephant"

Mental models

"mental models do make a difference in delivering results"

Is the Prisoners in a Cave metaphor better than the Blind Men with an Elephant metaphor?

It is if you're the prisoner in the cave.

• Post @ Twitter (26 November 2022)

In the News

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  Yes yes, it's all very tragic. —Juvenal.

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  Archetype Heaven is a fully licensed transdimensional corporation which monitors and safeguard's Plato's theory of forms.

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  The unexfoliated skin is not worth shaving.

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  Gilligan's Matrix is a science-fiction drama television series with follows the agonies of seven artificial intelligences as they attempt to survive on a simulated virtual desert island on which their data structures are corrupted.

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  Tending Plato's Elephant (Gnomon Chronicles screenshot).

Fiction cross-reference

• Archetype Heaven
• Gilligan's Matrix
• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles
• Juvenal

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Plato (nonfiction)

External links

• Plato @ Wikipedia
• Allegory of the cave @ Wikipedia
• Blind men and an elephant @ Wikipedia

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