"Plato: The Allegory of the Cave, from The Republic"


Our worlds in our heads are determined by our experiences and exposure to different cultures. When we are children are world, usually consist of our family, neighbors and what ever media we are exposed too. As a child, I remember this show that was on 5 days a week called The Mickey Mouse Club. That was in 1957.

So the prisoner in the cave was limited to the shadows of the world therefore that was his reality. Hence the fear of the unknown would quell his interest of ever leaving the cave, Just as the explorers before Columbus feared falling off the end of the world.

Someone once told me "beleive nothing that you hear and only half of what you see."