Plato never watched Cable News (Or did he?)
Plato’s parable of the cave imagines a place where humans have been imprisoned all their lives. The cave is all they know. As prisoners, they are forced to stare at a wall – unable to see each other, or anything else. Behind the men burns a fire, and between the men and the fire women walk carrying items. All the men can see is the shadow of the objects on the wall. That is all the men know. Then, one prisoner is set free. He leaves the cave. Slowly seeing the reality. Seein