Throughout history humanity will choose to live in ignorance over the truth. In the “Excerpt from the Republic” Socrates uses metaphor to describe human nature on its willingness to accept truth. The cave representing human nature, prisoners who represents society and the light represents true knowledge or being enlighten. One of the prisoners eventually gets free and witnesses the outside world, when he told the other prisoners about his experiences he gets shun and scorn. There are many events that can relate to this metaphorical story like evolution; Galileo’s theory of the world is round, ECT. These beliefs have been looked down upon and to this day still give people a hard time to accept and I wonder why? Why should society live in ignorant bliss instead of accepting what is real and not what is proven to be a fact? I personally believe that we as a society should live in the world of truth and not told what to accept just because someone said so. Why is it wrong to accept change and question what religion, the media, or anything/anyone else says what should accepted to be truth.
During the nineteen fifties America was a part of a silent war with Russia that shook the world by storm. The separation of east and west over the belief of whose economic system is the most beneficial to the world.
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