The Allegory of The Cave vs The Matrix

       I do believe that "The Allegory of The Cave", it is more accurate at the time to give up an illusion. Sometimes, people live in a world full of dark or unclear but in the case of Socrates by describing the scenario inside of the cave in which what people think that is real tends to be a simply illusion. Moreover, when the prisoner stands up to be released from the cave and see with his own eyes upon the sun discovers a new world that he could not accept right away just by the fact that he used to live into a world full of shadows.

                From my own personal experience, when I was just a kid and when dad and mom were giving everything that I requested I used to think that my world had to be always like that without worries or problems because I will account with them at every single moment in my economy situations. On the other hand, when the years were passing by and I was at one step to be attended into a College I did realized that live was another journey, a journey that it must be taken by me without depending from my parents.

                I considered the idea of my mom to come to The United States of America to study English as a second language and have a fresh air after high school but, was I just giving up the idea to stay into my own cave?.. as the prisoner in the prisoner in the story.  Probably, at that time my answer would be NO because I had in mind to come for study, visit my family, some vacations, meet up with some people, etc. Today, I could say that I am still living and missing my cave with the simple reason that I do know where is my first home, I recognize my fellow prisoner by just listen their voices and the shadows from the one who love me.

                Most of the things that I have seen in my dreams have come true. Where I had to acclimate in a world where it’s only me and giving a lot importance to the time which it is really important at the time to completed as many goals as possible. I am very easy to adapt on any position as it is requested by just being me with the gift of make a lot people happy with my actions and respect. I would see more and more every day of my life because the surface that I am right now it is to enjoy no matter what, and to learn as much as possible to be a better person.

                Therefore, there are many illusions into our lives but all depends of how you develop the illusion that you would live but I could tell you so far that mine has been full of justice and many things that I did not understood before right now have an answer with simple words “truth” and “intelligence”.

                     

        

Connected to Plato's ideology

                For so many years many people have been in a path of what they see is what it is real.  A simple ideology to believe in the idea about what they hear, what they see, or in many cases to follow a specific background. It is difficult to say that illusion is a fake world into our lives, because everyone must have a different definition about ideology to live in a simple illusion or by not accepting the truth as the way that it is supposed to be. 

                Different backgrounds tents to be more than the others but what makes the different into our lives is the point of view of every single individual. A clear example is how the European society sees the diverse religions into their continent which they could govern with permission or make them part of the society. One of the inconvenience is for the people who grow up by thinking about only one religion and their believes but to say that the government is part of their society and now part of their religion will make a lot inconvenience into the European continent and generate a different motivation for their own religion.

                In contribution we could not forget the term of ideology which is to develop some change into our society by our ideas, expectations, experiences and actions. In addition, according to intellectual ideas ideology could be a system on the same line with control, but depends of the mechanical system of how it is develop into our lives by being in the position to distinguish the real ideology into our lives without being just a regular victim in this wonderful world. 

                    

Allegory of the Cave

               The "Allegory of the Cave" by Plato is a simple view of how the reality is a material world in a dialog occurring between Socrates and Glaucon.  The main idea is to represent the true and the reality behind by the ones who have climbed out of the cave with the reflection to see the proper way ahead from the shadows.


          Socrates defined the origin of reality as something or someone as a permanent element point into the line of realism. Showing a strange image and the strange prisoners with a clearly point to Glaucon but his own conclusions just to be in the future with some power of illusion over him. The shadows with the prisoners where they believe everything around them but  imagine for a moment when one of the prisoners try to escape, an one coming suddenly out of the sun would not be able to see the star full of precious light because his eyes for so long have seen the darkness. Moreover, Socrates owns a poor belief over the intellectual world to understand to many people is depending over the system that whether true or false the light of fire is visible  in this world but some prisoners would mistake the concept of presence for reality.


          These shadows for so many prisoners are what they believe is truth without any concern of their own reality but instead of develop that the truth could be revealed in so many ways they just want to be in a stand by until one of them escapes from the cave and revealed the actual existent from a perpetual experience to the principal way to believe that it could be real.

Blog 1: The Cave and I

                Most of the people think that going away is as simple as taking an airplane. When I was a child, I though at my short age that flying to different parts of the world was very easy as going from one cloud to another cloud and having the idea that those cities that I visited were on the clouds. Everything stated by watching “Peter Pan”, the fantasy about flying from London to Neverland, but to be honest I thought that airplanes had the same magic as Peter Pan where flying was as easy as taking a regular taxi in the street.

                My family gave us a lot pleasures for my sister and I when we were kids. One thing that I do remember like if it was yesterday is when I step in my first airplane to go from Bogota-Colombia to Santa Marta-Colombia. Being at the airport, I had to create my own character into the moment, moment that I will be departing magically from our cloud in Bogota and landing to the cloud of Santa Marta because I was really scared at some point that my legs were shaking like a mixer and did not understand how the airplane could stay in the air for so long. Moreover, my sister was on the paper that we were going out of the country which it was another city in Colombia.

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                I do agree with the sentence that good fantasy is social commentary combined with good storytelling, because the imaginary world of clouds, Peter Pan, illusions, powers, magic, etc went so down to reality when my sister asked into the airplane to the fly attendant about how the airplane worked. However, I was so affected with the answer that I looked around for Peter Pan or Wendy until I realized with my eyes open that many things in life actually exist out of the cave as we live sometimes, rather than as they may appear or might be imagined.