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RE: Piranesi and Alternate Reality
In a cave, some prisoners are chained in a way that they can only see shadows projected on a wall in front of them. They can't even look at each other. They can hear the voices of the people behind them. The shadows are mostly of the objects that people behind them carry. Prisoners think that those voices belong to the objects. This is their reality. This is the world they know. They do not know that what they see is not an accurate representation of the world but a distorted and blurred version.
—Plato's Allegory of the Cave
This made me think of victims of abuse who are manipulated and gaslighted, living in a reality crafted by their abusers.
When I said, I had two theories about this book — the first was exactly this one. Piranesi was probably a pawn, an experiment of a bigger picture held by a professor/scientist who wanted to explore occlutism.
It's just so scary to realize how easily our minds can be manipulated, much like in movies like Case 39 and Hypnotic, where characters are made to see things that aren't truly there.
I haven't watched these movies but while reading this I had 1899 (a Netflix series) on my mind.
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