Thank you for recording this, this was so fun to watch :) I read Flatland for the first time a few months ago, and just finished re-reading it the second time, and now I'm translating it into "modern' English so more people will be able to understand it!
she falls short of recognizing that this is a retelling of Plato's (Socrates) Allegory of the cave. As even there beings are living in the limited lower dimensional projection on the cave wall not knowing the higher dimensional source of the shadows they learn to interpret...
Agree. A poor telling of a wonderful story. I don't think she has well understood Abbott's intention, especially the satirical aspects of his work. A brilliant reworking of Plato's Cave myth. There's a Masonic geometric secret encrypted in the book. Note that a pentagram, easily constructed in a pentagon, is a symbol of the Pythagoreans.
In Plato's cave he suggests that there a truth out there and we are merely able to see the shadows. Abbott claims that no matter how superior we think we are, there's no such thing as truth, the world is made through our perspective.
The main concept for me is the paradox he presents between the rule of nature and the social hierarchy. How is it so that lines, irregularities, isosceles can change by climbing up the social ladder? He mentions that education has to do with one's shape, but there's also a brief mention of rebellion leaders getting recognized as equilateral triangles. The point is, Abbott is showing us how ridiculous and arrogant we are to pretend that the law of nature defines who we are, portraying human society as absolutely measurable geometrical objects, that we pretend to see for what they are, denying that our perception has something to do with it. This was emphasized by the late 1800 period, with technological advancements promising a brighter future for everyone. Here Abbott takes a stand that we, 150 years later, are way too familiar about. Knowing more about the world, about either the origins of the universe or the cause of suffering of our own societies, does not necessarily make us more sensible, more emphatic, more just.
there is no difficulty in explaining 4 dimensions it all has to do with your perspective. in 4 dimensions all things seem to be transparent you the observer see all of the object at the same time in 3 dimensions you the observer only see one half of the object, in 4 dimensions all of the landscape can be seen at the same time transparent it is not, you see all of the object at the same time. this 3rd dimension is the real flatland. spiritual beings are physical not transparent like thy are here in the 3rd dimension the 4th dimension is a real step up from the 3rd for all color is more vivid as well as all objects are.
Thank you for recording this, this was so fun to watch :) I read Flatland for the first time a few months ago, and just finished re-reading it the second time, and now I'm translating it into "modern' English so more people will be able to understand it!
Do you have this translation by any chance? I’m reading it for school and lost in the sauce lol
she falls short of recognizing that this is a retelling of Plato's (Socrates) Allegory of the cave. As even there beings are living in the limited lower dimensional projection on the cave wall not knowing the higher dimensional source of the shadows they learn to interpret...
Agree. A poor telling of a wonderful story. I don't think she has well understood Abbott's intention, especially the satirical aspects of his work. A brilliant reworking of Plato's Cave myth. There's a Masonic geometric secret encrypted in the book. Note that a pentagram, easily constructed in a pentagon, is a symbol of the Pythagoreans.
In Plato's cave he suggests that there a truth out there and we are merely able to see the shadows. Abbott claims that no matter how superior we think we are, there's no such thing as truth, the world is made through our perspective.
The main concept for me is the paradox he presents between the rule of nature and the social hierarchy.
How is it so that lines, irregularities, isosceles can change by climbing up the social ladder? He mentions that education has to do with one's shape, but there's also a brief mention of rebellion leaders getting recognized as equilateral triangles.
The point is, Abbott is showing us how ridiculous and arrogant we are to pretend that the law of nature defines who we are, portraying human society as absolutely measurable geometrical objects, that we pretend to see for what they are, denying that our perception has something to do with it.
This was emphasized by the late 1800 period, with technological advancements promising a brighter future for everyone. Here Abbott takes a stand that we, 150 years later, are way too familiar about.
Knowing more about the world, about either the origins of the universe or the cause of suffering of our own societies, does not necessarily make us more sensible, more emphatic, more just.
@21:00 she was feeling her self rile up, then talked her self down. in doing so, she lost her place.
The comedy of life isn’t lost on me. Lol
Why?
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there is no difficulty in explaining 4 dimensions it all has to do with your perspective. in 4 dimensions all things seem to be
transparent you the observer see all of the object at the same time in 3 dimensions you the observer only see one half of the
object, in 4 dimensions all of the landscape can be seen at the same time
transparent it is not, you see all of the object at the same time. this 3rd dimension is the real flatland. spiritual beings are physical not transparent like thy are here in the 3rd dimension the 4th dimension is a real step up from the 3rd for all color is more vivid as well as all objects are.
woo!
came from subahibi