Blog 2: response Allegory of the Cave

                The excerpt from the Republic by Plato is a discussion between Socrates and Glaucon.  Socrates shares a story about people who spent their lives chained in a cave. All there life, all they saw were shadows by a light that was cast behind them. A man manages to break free and decides to leave the cave to indulge his curiosity. He wanted to know what was out there.  When he left the cave, his eyes burned since he had never set his eyes on the sun. Outside of the cave there were actual laborers, which ended up being the cause of the shadows. He returns to tell the story, but the people of the cave decided not to believe it. They refused to see the truth and accepted that they were happier living in ignorance. They did not want to get their eyes burned by the sun, nor the truth.  The man who left the cave managed to accept the new reality that he never thought possible, but what I noticed is that he doesn’t seem to notice that there is much more to that. A while back in the cave, his reality along with others, was that the shadows were the only thing that was real.  The people in the cave, on the other hand, refused to accept change. This is simply because change is a scary thing.