The lesbian bar outrage shows why Donald Trump won America

The lesbian outrage shows why Trump won America Plato’s Allegory of the Cave is the notion that none of us can truly perceive a world beyond our availability heuristic, which shapes our perception of reality. In simpler terms, Plato imagines that if people are chained in a cave and can only view those shadows, those shadows become their reality. The best pop-cultural manifestation of Plato’s Allegory was The Matrix, where all unfree characters are in a dream-like sleep and have no idea they are living inside a computer programme.The real-life analogy is anyone who consumes so much propaganda that no amount of rationalising, to borrow a line from Dr House, would change their opinion.Perhaps the most extreme version of that is the epochal tale of Hiroo Onoda, a Japanese soldier stationed in the Philippines at the fag end of World War II, who “fought” for thirty years and refused to lay down his arms.Explorer Suzuki (left) and Hiroo Onoda, in February 1974 on Lubang Island. The image was intended to be proof that Onoda was alive.(Upscaled with Canvas) Once the island was overtaken by Allied forces, Onoda and his comrades escaped into the jungle, where they survived on coconuts, banana...