Plato's Forms

Recently, in the throes of what can only be described as a morbid curiosity, I have accepted a friends challenge to read multiple fanfics and then later write my own, about the world of my choice. These pale imitations of the original works, wrought with many a Mary Sue and plagued by the deus ex machina, made me think upon the nature of Plato's forms. Plato, in the throes of what can only be described as insanity, got the wacky idea that the things that exist in the world are merely the shades of bigger ideals. Though this is certainly false for some things, many other relationships it proves true for, like the fanfics and the original works. Like the internet and morality for example, the idea of morality on the internet, seems to be a joke to some people. Appeals to the pathos or ethos of the internet hive-mind often find themselves falling upon deaf ears. The only way to actually inspire the crowd of internet lovers is the infringement of personal rights. Even the threat of such an action is enough to force them up in arms, taking volatile action against friend and foe alike. Their idea of morality is so strange that many traditional news networks find themselves run around in circles by their love for the “lulz” and so on and so forth. I really dunno whether he's truly correct or not, but like Democritus's atomic theory, it seems really bloody strange from a merely intellectual stage.