Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” is a wonderful example of society’s role in our lives. A brief summary of the parable is as follows: A group of men have been chained by their legs and necks in a cave since childhood; they can not turn their heads and can only see what is in front of them on a cave wall. There is an entrance open to the light outside, and a long tunnel running through the cave. ... There are other people in the cave, the puppet masters who move objects so that they appear on the screen to the prisoners; the prisoners can not see the puppet masters. The cave and the objects that cross the cave wall are all that the prisoners know of reality. ... Would he become enlightened to the true reality, or would he believe that what he is seeing is an illusion and that what he has seen in the cave to be a more true reality than the outside world? If indeed the man had become enlightened, and went back inside the cave to set free the other prisoners and to tell them of the true reality what would the other prisoners do? ... Like the prisoners in the cave, we are subjected to the half-truths of reality.
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