anon, even plato thought this world was fucked up. that's his whole idea of the demiurge - he thought the god who created this realm had good intentions but obviously didn't represent the highest good. the gnostics took this concept so far that yahweh became the devil basically. it's weird you're citing plato as an authority but also claiming he's a proto-hippie. you do know that socrates was influenced by pythagoras, and the neoplatonists did study pythagorean numerology, correct?
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