Bonus nonsense:
Glittering Images by Camille Paglia
I stopped reading after this horrendous introduction. I would describe the prose as Redditor adjacent. The author identifies as a civil rights era liberal and atheist, while condemning black art and Piss Christ. There were some pretty pictures in the book tho. I don't know who this author lady is/was but she sucks. 2/10
E: if you look this lady up, as many in the comments have done already, turns out she's a racist, transphobic pedophile. classic anticommunist
In Plato's Cave - The chains, darkness and shadow puppets are the base and the shadow pictures on the wall are the metaphysical. If you're only looking at the metaphysical then you are being deluded.
In Plato's Cave, the shadows on the wall are allegorically very much the physical world and the outside world under the light of the sun is the world of Forms, because Plato was the arch-idealist.
You get what I mean though right? They are a show created to delude the people within the cave. The metaphysical superstructure is created in the minds of the individuals based on seeing the shadows, built upon the physical base that's trapping them and showing them the shadows to keep them there.