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Lockdown economics: Arguments without conclusions

The last part, titled "Ruminations", is too short to present any meaningful analysis of how the author arrived at his conclusions

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Lockdown or Economic Destruction?

Ishaan Gera
Lockdown or Economic Destruction?
Author: Madan Sabnavis
Publisher: Atlantic
Pages:198
Price: Rs 595

One of the most interesting philosophies proposed by Plato is the “Allegory of the Cave”. Plato uses the cave as a symbolic representation of how humans live, contrasting reality with perception. Plato starts with prisoners who have been condemned to a cave for life and can only witness the world via shadows, which ultimately becomes their reality. When one prisoner is freed and witnesses the world differently, he tries to go back and tell others but is blinded. This cements the thought in others that freedom is dangerous. Though Plato’s allegory can