The Allegory of the Cave plays a important role in our community today. Living in our world would be accurately like living in the cave, as what Plato explained.
We don’t see it but we are the slaves and the puppets being controlled by puppeteers. We have the media, the government, businesses, and markets, even us. Shadows walk around us everyday as if we were to be watching a movie.
I think that Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, even today information is kept from the minds of the ones that want to know. How I think about this is, the cave is a metaphor for the mind, the opening is/ are the ears or mouth, and the prisoners are the people in this world who do not have the knowledge that they are fully capable of knowing. I personally do not think that the allegory is out dated today, because it is about human nature, and human nature will go on for as long as the human race survives. Something that has changed slightly is the puppeteer, today the ‘puppeteer’ sometimes does not show themselves always, but regulates on what can be put on to the internet, TV, and books. But because of this, people are still blinded from the truth, they do not have all of the knowledge that they need to be able to participate truthfully in our society and government today. People today are able to live their lives how they want to live them to the most part. But in today’s society, it is very easily to be able to see past the shroud of false and misleading knowledge, at some points in time, but at times the people of the world are not able to see past the shroud of false and misleading knowledge. That is why we study and go to school, to learn some of the knowledge that is still enshrouded, and truthful.
Most of the information that you have introduced above are direct copies of sources from the internet. You need to put in your own opinion of what "the shadows in the cave" means to you. Or rather what you think it means. . Ms Clare
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