Disguising Insight

Our knowledge of the world is sometimes stunted by the traditional values we hold fast to guide a new life. We are comfortable learning from our parents in the road to adulthood but what happens when our parents, like an old science that’s been improved upon, are no longer giving us what we need to lead a progressive life? The Allegory Of The Cave ascends concepts of evolution with a story which survives time to be relative even today. An assessment of the word allegory to me, is insight disguised with symbolism. Of which this story is full of.

The idea that surrounds the story is simple, if we limit ourselves to the comfort of what we are used to, growth is difficult to achieve. This is my synopsis aside from the incredible amount of symbolism encompassing the story. I’m sure that throughout history, adaptations of meaning for The Allegory Of The Cave have changed. Yet with the birth of technology constantly changing and underlying our activities, the allegory for our time is that we shouldn’t keep our eyes focused on a farce reality (media propaganda) that blinds us to the world we can experience for ourselves.

This abstraction can also be analogous to The Matrix. In Neo’s world, people were cloaked with identities given to them by their fake perception. If they really wanted to seek the truth, their harsh reality was open to exposure but in all it’s perfection, the matrix had just become too hard to escape, well, except for Neo of course. In this way Neo is like the person who gets free from the cave and Cypher represents those of the cave who is comfortable in ignorance. It is important we take a certain knowledge of such warnings. Not as if to say that technology might succumb to the extreme circumstances of The Matrix but it just could be the television screen that blinds us.