Plato's Allegory Of The Cave

Plato’s Allegory of the Cave addresses important aspects of a person's’ frame of mind; through indirectly comparing pieces of the story to mental exploitation. Through his story, Plato urges the reader to find truth and wisdom through elevating their personal thinking. A concept he would die to make known - some two thousand years ago - now bears a relevant message in our world today. The message Plato left behind the story lies around perception, and how knowledge obtained through what we see is simply just an opinion. The characters in the story are literally chained to using their senses to think; just as they are chained to the bottom of a cave. Separated from the outside world, each person has no desire to venture towards the light. The
While they do this, they absorb the useless information that Plato and Socrates describe -- quite happily. Usually sitting in a dark room, away from the harsh light of the sun, they can see their screens without glare. Escaping in the darkness of a TV room, screens pull them away from sometimes harsh reality, all the while filling their brains with meaningless opinions. A child may never again play with a stick and a rock for hours, sharpening their mind through creativity and imagination. If they never play in the light of the sun, they will grow up to be blind of what is happening around them. Staring at shadows of the truth will only leave them with shadows to work with later in life; blurry skewed images of what the media leaves behind.The world will run out of people like Plato and Socrates; innovative intellectuals that can think for themselves. The generation that seems glued to the wall of shadows and hopelessly entangled in chains may never escape the cave they are trapped in. Only if they are dragged out the cave, and shown the light by a teacher or parent, will reason and intellect