Despite believing that poets corrupted society because poets did not seek the truth, Plato himself was quite open to philosophers telling lies to an uneducated society. The Myth of Er is a sort of proto Christian Hell idea, which would keep people behaving well because they thought they would be punished in the afterlife. Plato actually thought we should behave well because a virtuous life was genuinely the best life on Earth, but presumably not everyone was going to go along with that.

Also, on a metaphysical level, the science museum and the philosophy museum are exactly the same anyway, when you think about it.

Socrates, pointing the gun, "oh yeah, one more thing, can you go ahead and define what you think justice means? because you seem to claim to know..."

Dang actually we should have wished to live forever, then we would have infinite time to figure out if chairs exist or not.

Hooray for Pokey!!

Sort of an homage to this comic:
http://www.yellow5.com/pokey/archive/index396.html
And Pokey the Penguin in general. I read that comic around 20 years and somehow always remembered the phrase "Suddenly, Time Passes". Possibly the most metaphysically philosophical phrase to ever be written in a webcomic, and amazingly, the Pokey the Penguin comic is still running today.

seriously though why did we even bother industrializing if we weren't going to share in the gains that it made??

Panel 1 is a depiction of Neanderthals in the Shanidar Cave, in particular the "Shanidar 1" specimen, which showed a large number of old injuries and disabilities in the individual. The fact that they had lived for so long showed that the Neanderthal community cared for their members even when they were no longer "useful" physically to society.
It's kind of hard to imagine going back and showing the Shanidar Neanderthals all the gains we've made as a society to produce enough food for everyone, and yet people still go hungry. Then again, imagine showing him Nintendo Switch. I bet he'd love Nintendo Switch, so it's really a wash.