The Sinuous Evolution of Censorship from The Myth of Plato's Cave Towards the Convergence Between Virtual Reality and The Social Network
The Sinuous Evolution of Censorship from The Myth of Plato's Cave Towards the Convergence Between Virtual Reality and The Social Network

Summary/Abstract: The matter analyzed in this paper refers to censorship as a phenomenon that is part of human culture from the dawn of mankind. In this light the term “fake news” coined on the social network is the practice to project audiences a mystification of reality as reality itself intrinsically a practice as old as humanity. Having this for foundation, I consider censorship a subtle way of altering reality for the benefit of the power, but most interesting an individual inner process generated by a stiff interpretation of politically correctness often called public opinion.Ergo I argue about Platonic realism, that postulate universals as abstract objects that exists objectively outside human mind, in the context of social networks. Scrutinizing Plato’s Cave Allegory, as an artistic way of communicating with audience, I will summarize the genuine and indispensable elements that structure the artistic content of audiovisual communication of today.

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