blog:4 Socrate´s message in " The allegory in the cave"

           In Plato´s "The allegory in the cave" Socrates tell a story to the student how unenlightened and unexamined life we live. Its a life in the cave, where everything is simple,comfortable and without the question marks ( what if? ). It´s kind of closed life where everybody is doing the same,knowing the same and acting same, in one word, non upgrading life. Pleople staying on the same level of the knowledge and never being able to grow more as they are. Sadly, that we are happy in our closed dark cave and we are not even trying to bloom. We are satisfied and we are more then sure this is right for us.Most of the time these illusions are created by those who benefit from keeping us blind and ignorant, these are society and culture.



 As an Socrates trying to tell to his student ones you try the air outside the cave and will be able to see the beauty of the outside world you became different. This journey could be painful and thorny way how to became more happy and more wise by every day. But there is  no way back to the cave anymore. Why? Those who dare step outside of the cave and start the thorny way become more wise and experienced. It simple wouldn't be enough to continue life as before. They become more hungry to know more and more, which is giving them rewarding feelings. Also they would be very different from the people in the cave. They would never understand what happened, why they behave strange and why they became aliens.This people with knowledge are dangerous. Also there is a another human trait like jealousy. Ones you become smarter then the other it´s a problem. There is an example when I started a college back home few of my friends start dissuade me to begin the school. In my country even if you finish the college you don´t get a good paid job if  you get any.So they were thinking for what you need the school?? I said I need to get more knowledge because I feel that I stopped on one level and cant move forward. In this moment I saw the jealousy in their face.They realize that I´m not doing it for a money but only for myself, to grow, to bloom. This girls stays on the same level like I left and it was a few years ago.Their advise to me was find a man and make a family.Until today they think that man has to make money in the family and woman has to raise kids. So from my perspective, women can´t get any knowledge and get independent because of the old traditions??!! I wanna say that what Socrates was trying to tell  is a 100 percent true. I do see my self in this story.


In addition when Socrates was trying to explain by who are made this closed caves full of blind people, these are those people who have a benefits from our ignorance and blindness.This are the society and culture.Is no need for a change here. For the society is comfortable when we stay death and blind. There is no need to get wiser and bolder. Just stay the way we are.In considerably is only one think important for them, move the economy and work hard as an horse. As soon we get some deep knowledge and can see the thinks trough we became dangerous. In the example in 1960, when Martin Luther King (by the way, he was an doctor of philosophy) was trying defend the civil rights for the black people.He was fighting hard for their rights that´s why he became their leader. Here we can see the dissatisfaction of white people,who don´t want the black people became equitable with white people.Let say they want them in the dark cave. Which means no knowledge, no rights for the black people. White people start upheaval. For them it was an end of comfortable life where the black people have no rights they were working as an slaves for them. In the April 1968 was Martin Luther King shoot  on the balcony by a white shooter. In this example we can clearly see what can happen when we get wiser,smarter and trying to to some changes in this life,not everybody can accept this.


In conclusion I do agree with Socrates, I think everybody should step out of the fence and do your best in your life. The knowledge just make us more develop and wise. It´s for our good.This way we can only grow and germinate.