Society has consensus on Cave Allegory narrative. It is about "not trusting narratives and seeing reality". Sounds pretty ironic that original writing Cave Allegory conflicts with that narrative.

Here's the list of conflicting and useless concepts I was able to detect. I will appreciate additions.

Highlighted head fixation ("cannot move, and can only see before them, being prevented by the chains from turning round their heads", "never allowed to move their heads"); Socrates labelling himself as a prisoner too ("like ourselves"); self and each others shadows visibility is highlighted ("they see only their own shadows, or the shadows of one another"); sun, the metaphor of reality, is somehow illuminating the cave ("mouth open towards the light and reaching all along the den"); horizontal rotation of the soul introduced as special term reused, not single-time metaphor; extra highlight on looking at the light specifically (if it's about reality vs shadows, why it's not enough to look on figures?); specific highlights that real world is above cave ("underground", "steep and rugged ascent", "soul which comes from below into the light", "turn the vision of their souls upon the things that are below", "who returns from above", and right after metaphor "beatific vision are unwilling to descend to human affairs'", "upper world"). I am also confused why nobody applied emission theory to cave fire, but that's different topic.

And two most concerning for me:

If it's all about shadow vs reality, why there's multi-stage setup with shadows-figures-ascent-shadows again-reflections-moonlight-sun?
Yes, it is related to divided line analogy, but still too complex for "shadows vs reality"
Why specific highlight made on temporal pattern prediction capabilities?
"And if they were in the habit of conferring honors among themselves on those who were quickest to observe the passing shadows and to remark which of them went before, and which followed after, and which were together; and who were therefore best able to draw conclusions as to the future, do you think that he would care for such honors and glories, or envy the possessors of them?"

This all makes famous metaphor non-parsimonious; it's adding too much details, mixes concerns and just does not serve its purpose in that over-inflated state.

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