Zohran Mamdani caught lying that he understood Plato’s allegory of the cave, yet when asked to explain it, he seemed to instead explain Baudrillard’s theory of Simulacra and Simulation where reality has been replaced by symbols and signs, which seems similar to Plato’s theory but is not the same

it's important to accept that sometimes you can't get the best outcome or even any potential good outcome, and be able to make peace with hoping for the funniest bad outcome