Blog 4 "The Allegory of the Cave"

In Platos "The Allegory of the Cave", Socrates tells a story to his student Glaucon to explain that we live       unexamined life, we live a closed life, always on the same level of knowledge, near being able to increase that knowledge.They are illusion,are created by our culture society(by those who benefit-from keeping us ignorant) and we believe these illusions to be "real", "true".When we are given knowledge, we become free of these illusions but gaining knowledge is a slow, painful process.Gradually, we become wise, when we try to explain what we learned, what is "real" (true and right) to others, we feel because they deny or cannot understand the truth.They conclude  that the knowledgeable person is ridiculous, stupid or crazy and dangerous.I agree with the author because people are  afraid to fight to mix with different cultures and lazy to learn.                                                                                                                                  
   To begin with people are afraid to fight, to mix with different cultures and lazy to learn . All people around the world know that Greece is in an economic crisis.Two years ago my older sister who lives in Greece decided to come in New York because of unemployment.She shocked when she saw a lot of population, highways, wonderful stories,and the beautiful places in Manhattan.She couldn't adapt in American's life and culture.She wanted to go back to live easy even thought the situation in Greece was bad. My sister's example shows that some people even thought have opportunity to live and work in other development places, they are afraid to clash with the reality. They like to live in shell, like in small cities without try to learn new things around the world. They don't know and they don't like to have knowledge about development countries.They are afraid to learn and  live the new life.