Blog 2: Allegory of the cave

Many things in this world are not what they seem. The world is filled with illusions and they range from things like somebody having a fake nose to the government making up big programs to help the economy. One instance of something that wasn't what it seemed was the war in iraq. It all started after 9/11 when a terrorist attack on the united states caused the president at the time George W. Bush to start a war against terrorism but also to start claiming that iraq and Saddam Hussein were hording and hiding "Weapons of mass destruction" in his country. The president then started operation iraqi freedom which started in 2001. 
As time past and no  "weapons" were being found people started to wonder what we were really in iraq for if there were no weapons and Saddam Hussein really had nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks. The goverment and the president heard the chatter about it and at every chance tried to reassure the people that there were "weapons of mass destruction" there and they just needed more time to find them. After years past the it was finally relised that there was no weapons being hid and iraq had nothing to do with 9/11 alot of people started to cathc on that there was never weapons in Iraq and there probably was no reason to go there to handle any threats so there had to be an another objective for why we had went into Iraq in the first place and not had only focused on terrorist. The goverment tried everything to reassure the public they had no secret objectives for going into Iraq but a vast majority of people do not buy it. Now with Barrack Obama as president he is trying to pull the troops out of Iraq with them really not having a purpose to be there anymore.
The American public had a blinders pulled  over there eyes by the government and now everybody realised that it was just a rouse for what we still dont know for sure.

Blog 1(revised)

Blog 1: The Cave and I,

 I think out of the two choices of staying in the cave and being ignorant of the truth or going out and facing the blinding truth, My choice would be to face the blinding truth. This being because I would rather know the truth then be lied to. I also would like to be able to tell others the truth ,even if they would reject and hate me for what I say. I say that knowing that if I tell the truth about something that even though many people may hate me for it at the time that some people will not hate me but heed my word and back me, so that then when I’m proven right people would look at me as almost a revolutionary that got everybody’s mind to change and open up to what’s really going on.

In Plato’s “The allegory of the cave” Socrates is having a conversation with his student Glaucon and he tells him that the man who was a prisoner in a cave goes out into light of the real world and comes back to tell his friends the truth’s about it. But the man is looked upon as crazy when he does it. Then Socrates says that “good appears last of all, and is only seen with effort”, he’s saying that “good” being the truth is only obtained or seen through leaving the “cave” or comfort of being lied to and going out and seeing the truth for yourself, which I believe in and is the reason I picked to face the truth.

An example of someone going out and learning the truth about something and telling to the rest of the world is Al gore. Al gore, former vice president of the united states was the catalyst for the way people look at the health of the earth and global warming. At first people didn't believe and disregarded his theory. But then when he started to get alot of scientific evidence and highly credible scientists backing him and confirming his theory people began to wise up to the truth and as we know now the whole "go green" takeover started. Still even though he has changed many minds, there are still people who claim global warming to be a "not real" but the more and more information comes out the less people will be able to reject it and will have to face the "blinding truth". 


Living in the cave and being comfortable and being shielded from the truth is understandable. A lot of people would like to stay ignorant, and not know the truth, but that's is the easy way out. It's takes courage and ambition to find the truth out for yourself and be able to handle it and accept it for what it is.

draft of blog 1

What's up,My name is Garick.I am of Jamaican,cuban,german decent.I am 20 years old.I like to play video games(xbox),workout,and watch cartoons.I also like playing football and the I was hoping after my time here at laguardia I could move on to a bigger school and play for a division 1 college.