Blog 4

In Plato’s “The Allegory of the Cave,” Socrates tells a story to his student Glaucon to explain that we live in an unexamined life. In other words, we are not enlightenment; we live a closed life, unwilling to increase our level of knowledge. The illusion is created by our culture, by society and believes they are real. When we are given knowledge, we become freer from thee illusions but gaining knowledge is a slow and painful process. We become wise and when tried to return to the cave, to explain what its reality to others in the caves, we failed to explain because they cannot understand the truth. Therefore, the one who explains are the following: Crazy, Ignorant, and dangerous. It is a journey from the cave to the light from the sun. I agree with Plato when it comes to making someone understand something they haven’t seen.

For example, when you try to explain your college experience to your friends that never been to college, they will probably think your stupid because you are not like them. My friends that never been to college either think it’s a waste of time to go to college because they never wasted a minute in a college course or I am stupid enough to actually attend classes. For my point of view, I believe the crazy and the ignorant are my friends that never been to college because they never gave it a try. Jealousy can play its part because they never experience what I did which is sad. But, I always encourage my friends to start or finish college. I also agree knowledge is every powerful, well its power period. I also understand the fact that knowledge is a slow and painful process.

Knowledge is a slow process because it takes time to understand. For example, if you want to find out how to sail a boat, you need to understand plenty things such as the weather your boat about to sail in, how to maneuver the boat along with the weather, and also how to park a boat once finish sailing. Sailing a boat is a long process just like knowledge. Knowledge is a painful process because you need to make sacrifices for the knowledge you gained.

            It doesn’t take a wise man to make a man wise, it takes the man himself to become wise if choose too. The experience the wise man once went through, the other may not. We all have different ways of living and learning, but if you choose to be ignorant and selfish, usually you going to be the same guy you were before. I believe it’s all mental.