In plato "unexamined life is not worth living"

       The difference between human beings and animals is that human beings can think, but animals cannot. However, our lives were confined by which people already  made forms before. Thus, we do not like to accept new thing that we never experience, and they struggle and conflict with them when they get something new.  In Plato’s” the allegory of the cave,” Socrates tells a story to his students to explain that we live an unexamined life. We live a closed life, always on the same level of knowledge, were increased that knowledge. The illusion are created by our culture/ society, and we believe these illusion to be “real.” 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 have learned, what is “real”  to others, we fail because they deny or cannot understand the truth. They conclude that the person who attain knowledge is ridiculous , stupid, or crazy.- and dangerous.  I agree with Plato when he says that people do not want to accept new concepts because people afraid of having conflict,people pretend to keep their own thing and people do not want to loose their authority.

       First, Even we want to change our life, we give up the challenge because of fear of conflicting.  For example, in "Lean in" by  Sheryl Sand berg, Face Book CEO, she says our mother's generation had been treated unequally with men a long time ago. As women educated, they tried hard to get women's equality until they got. I think it was really painful challenge and hard work to get the right in that society that men really did not accept gender equality.  However, nowadays, women's lives are much easier than before because modern women stand on our old generation efforts. Sandberg says that  despite of our old women's efforts, many woman who have college degree give up gender equality, because they want to avoid conflicting between men and women. As we know men were naturally dealing with out side work, but women were the one who take care of children. When women are single, it does not matter having jobs or not. Nevertheless, when women give birth to a baby, women have to stay home and they give up their jobs. Wives do not even try to share house work 50/50 with their husbands because they do want to against this rules in which woman are for their children.  Here is my point, women are all the way to have knowledge, but they do not want to apply because they cannot  stand on the fear, so  step themselves back from the right. Thus, instead of  taking risk and having challenge, they choose peace  staying in the old culture. We learn  knowledge from everywhere, but we do not want to use it in the real world .  

            Second, changing one another is totally uncomfortable process. For example, Amish people still  lived without electricity, and they lived in self-sufficient society despite of inconvenience. As Plato mentions that people do not want to  change their life styles because they are so used to be the way they have lived.  Changing is not only a lot of process but also, they want to hold their culture. Also, there is no grantee that new ways would be better than before. On top of that, Amish are afraid of having other people into their community and new comers mass up their rules, and new comers challenge them. It will be pain ass for them.  Even though some Amish people got out of the town to other world, they learned new things, and  they went back to the Amish town to share new knowledge, as we see, Amish people did not accept modern culture.    

       Third, No one wants to be taken away their authority. For example, I think that North Korea is the one have never opened their door to the world as keeping communism. Kim jung un, 26years old, who just received the power of controlling  of the country, knows that people in the world have freedom, many countries do trades together, and many people do not struggle with food like his people. I think he may want to open his country's door to the world, but he cannot because his authority will be taken away.