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Blowing Up a Little Truth
It was an amazing experience. I was sitting on the couch, reading a book by Plato, and from these pages a warm and soft-spoken voice ended up sitting right next to me. Millennia apart, I am sitting on the couch having a conversation with Plato.
He did all the talking, and it was hard to disagree with what he had to say. But in the end, I knew what he had done. He walked me to a lie and presented it as a truth.
Naturally, no one believes a lie, so Plato did something quite smart.
First he presented Position A that was obviously true. Then, Plato presented Position B, a direct conclusion based on Position A, so that was quite true as well. Next, he presented Position C and then Position D, and while all conclusions were of the utmost quality and even the last position fully connected to the previous one, Plato presented the last position as if it were fully connected to Position A. He presented it as the Truth. In reality it was just a little truth, correct within the specifically presented circumstances.
He presented a clear case of linear thinking. With Plato, I had walked step by step into a rabbit hole, and in that hole there was indeed a little bang. He tried to make me believe the little bang was all there was, that it was a Big Bang.
