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.