Why John Dies at the End is Important to Life

I am about to blog so hard on how John Dies at the End relates to another text that I read once. I'm 'bout to go deep, yo.

The Beginning: In the juicy novel that is John Dies at the End, the main characters Dave and John start out as average human beings, living average lives. They both thought that what they were experiencing was all that there was to life. But then, Dave and John try this trippy new drug that makes them see everything differently. They suddenly knew everything they wanted to know, and gained the power to communicate with the dead. They had discovered that there is a whole new world out there, and this discovery changes their lives forever. Oddly, this relates to some philosophy that I read this one time, Plato's Allegory of the Cave. In the Allegory of the Cave, there are a bunch of people chained to a wall in a way that they cannot move, not even their heads side to side. Because I am currently listening to a song called Ebin, I will now refer to the chained beings as the Ebins. The only source of light in the cave is a fire behind the previously mentioned Ebins. There are also other people in the cave, who are not chained. I will call them the Sanchos, because it's my blog and I can. The Sanchos are apparently really evil people, and instead of unchaining the Ebins so they could live normal happy lives, they just put things in front of the fire, so that shadows of those things will be displayed on the wall in front of the Ebins. Since the Ebins can't move their heads, these shadows are all they will ever see for their entire lives. These shadows are their life. They don't know anything else but the shadows. They would name the shadows, and play guessing games with which shadows they think will come next, and the Sanchos just watch. Then one glorious day, the Sanchos set the Ebins free. Most Ebins just stay where they are, because everything else but the shadows are confusing to them. They can't walk, and seeing the other humans and the rest of the cave confuses them. But maybe one Ebin crawls out of the cave. This lucky guy now knows what the world is really like. That special Ebin represents Dave and John, and him leaving the cave represents Dave and John taking the drug that let them see more than the world they were familiar with. The Ebin now knows anything he could have wanted to know in his past life, just like the drug let Dave and John know everything they wanted to know about their past lives as average human beings. And just to be clear, the drugs mentioned in this blog are fictional, and real drugs don't actually let you know everything or talk to the dead.