In Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, Socrates tells a story of humans who were born and lived in a cave for their entire lives. There was no life like a typical human knows today but the life that did exist was from their limited viewpoint.To their naked eye, puppets and intellectual nose were their only inspiring views of the universe. A man was able to break free from the shackles and see what life was like outside the cave. At first, he was blinded, both physically and metaphorically, by everything the outside world had to offer. After taking everything in, he decided to go back to the cave to educate the other ‘prisoners’ on his new discovery. He attempted to go back to where he belonged but no one trusted him or even understood. To the prisoners,…show more content… It is easy to say that people should not allow stereotypes to “pull us back to the cave” and stereotypical thinking. To actually leave the comfort zone of the cave is the difficult portion. This required educating yourself on Muslim culture as well as being around middle easterners to fully understand that they are human just like any other group of people. Then, it is your job as an informed citizen to reach into your community and teach other of your new foundings. If we as a nation break free from this wall, it will be more feasible for people to recognize individual based on their personalities in contrast to said stereotypes. In conclusion, the Allegory of the Cave is definitely applicable to today’s society. Humans today tend to revert back to their nonage by allowing someone or something else to influence their viewpoint, without truly seing the reality for themselves. It is imperative that humans today educate themselves and become more aware of their surroundings. So the human race does not end up in a cave idly watching the media provide us with puppet shows of
