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RE: Plato’s Cave – Why Some People Want To Remain Prisoners
Well done and said. We all are caved by our own actions and beliefs, or from the actions of others. So many contrasts with Plato - light/darkness, freedom/chained, sight/blindness....it causes me a lot of thought. Like Viktor Frankl in Man's Search for Meaning - "Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way." So we can be chained, imprisoned but free in our minds.
Humans will always see what they want to see. If they want to see the puppet show, even after being shown it is just shadows of forms of real things - they will. The best that you or I can do is show them another way, and hope that by seeing the whole show from another perspective they will explore the world under the sun. If not, then we will continue to do so ourselves since we now have the choice to live how we want to live, right now.
You can lead a horse to water....but you can't make it drink. Simplified :)