Allegory of the Cave

eh...it is interesting...but also hurts my brain...

I kind of get what Plato tried to say, but it is a really confuse and deep theory. Human society is based on the existed knowledge and rule, and people are afraid of "unknown". The prisons are be held in the environment from the very beginning. To them, the image of the outside world is far from their understand of their "real world". Sometimes truth is really hard to hear even harder to accept it. I forgot who mention this, but people tend to accept the similarity and stay away the differential. It is quite often to see that in real life, being different is difficult because that tends to get more people's attention. Sometimes it could be good, but sometimes it could be really bad as well. In the story, the shadow can be rephrased as bias or stereotype and the reality is rejected. Most of times, accepting new knowledge or truth is way harder than stay the same because "changes" also meaning crumble the exist condition and create something new. 

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One interesting quote: Bertrand Russell's quote "the whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts."

The world is full of unknown, being objective is really important to be able to accept new stuffs., but it is also one of the hardest thing to do.