This vampire metaphors of connecting his life habits of preference for darkness, was only meant to illustrate , and I apologise of forgetting to include this in the original, philosophical narrative, of Plato’s Cave.
As such the metaphor could be drawn to cover the ancient absence of light, with the modern distrust of it.
Let me clarify, Arc. Light can be used again meta-phorically for a number of things, and here I would prefer to focus on light before The Enlightenment.
Science, as many benefits it has come to garner, is deistrusted by many, as having, or about to disconnect from it’s host, the natural environment.
Like a premature rush to get out from it’s parents, the child Science, wants a clean break away from those who gave it existence.
Your comment, that I am becoming robot like in my distrust of the technical aspects of communication, are a good example of this idea.
For instance, many educated people are getting the idea, that in the event of a world wide calamity, the under ground will again be sought out as the safest place, away from the infectious and poisonous quality of the above ground. In this sense, the darkness invites three real insecurity that the light can manifest, in such times.
Let me give You a personal anecdote that illustrates this concept. I am at variance with myself about the publishing of it, but here it goes.
After so many years, I still have flashbacks of it, due to the ingestion of a super sized amount of lysergic acid. This was decades ago, but the quantity was enormous. I ended up in a police department’s holding cell, and at one point, again. I died, which was recounted by some attendees.
I was taken back to the cell, after which I was in and out of consciousness, probably experiencing a life and death battle. There was a light just outside the locked door, and I remember asking the attendee, to turn it off. He said something strange, to the effect, that, most people on drugs want them on.
Looking back, this for me could have meant only one thing, in p(reference) to darkness, that if if dying, it would be more comfortable to do it in darkness.
Darkness could have symbolized that, from which going to death, would be less of a contrast. But I am sure there were other symbolic intros psychic communication going on.
Surviving the ordeal the development of extreme photo sensitivity may be an expected extension of that experience.
As always, Orbie