Examination mid-term

Most of the people are prisoners of the reality of the reality for the simple reason that we find any evidence to know the point of some truth. Moreover, during this class we saw and develop two processes of giving up illusion and embracing truth. First at all Plato, “the Allegory of the cave” and second “The Matrix” a movie that it was film by 1999 where shows the reality as a simple dystopia. Based on my evidence I have found more accurate the movie “The Matrix”.

The Allegory of the cave can be found in the book VII of Plato’s best known work, The Republic, a dialogue on the nature of justice. One of the most important historical examples about this wonderful work of Plato is when Benjamin Jowett took the following selection for translation and says that “the best way to understand Plato’s Allegory of the cave will be when the world of philosophical terms are in your mind to truly put it in your own language”. Plato’s described what is necessary for us to achieve this reflective understanding. But even without it, it remains true that our own ability is to think and speak depend of the form, because the terms of the language we use get their meaning by calling or naming the things as we perceive day by day.

Plato’s point is that the prisoners would be mistaken for the reason that they would be mistaken for the reason that they would be taking the terms in their own language to refer to the shadows that pass before their eyes. Such prisoners would mistake appearance for reality, because if they see on the walls a shadow, right away they will put in their minds that it totally real and they would know anything of the real causes of the shadows. This is important fact send me back to my philosophy class in high school, when the professor explained about the idea that knowledge cannot be transfer from teacher to the student unless we do not agree the proper way to understand the intelligence of all our sources to learn. In many ways, I do understand this simple fact by seeing this dialogue in other language and to understand that reality is only one and we need to accept it no matter what into our own society.       

On the other hand, I see more accurate the movie the Matrix for my own experiences and I will explain you why. A film in 1999, but with the idea to take Will Smith as the main actor to represent so much better the idea about the chaos of the post-nuclear apocalyptic landscape where humans are slaves could not be well develop because the context by him it was that he was not really for this paper or roll in the movie. Another perpetual experience of famous actor drop the paper Nicolas Cage. In life we would be mistaken by not accepting our own talent and in many cases I have had passed by situations like this, for example by being a CMO of the well know Colombian companies at my short age for the idea to finish my degree in another foreign country, other language, new people and more new personal experiences withput any economy hel or support from my family. This difficult decision gave me the support to calm down and worries more for myself by accepting my talent and my own destined way for business.

The movie develops a structure of giving up illusion and embracing truth by taking two pills the blue or the red when only one will show it, but only Neo will discover the visible world of reality. Furthermore, Neo agree to understand his own world and discover his own path to find out the truth. It is exactly what happened to me. One was to stay in Colombia living the wonderful life where I had everything that I wanted or second to discover new natural ways to discover the truth of my intellectual world. I developed steps to find out the most rationally future for my own to grow up as an individual without depending from others but keeping my kidness and pure hearth to help anyone around me. It was really hard to find the truth but felling in a way that I could make anything possible in my life. Sometimes I felt that I live in a world of truth but in a way to go back as soon as possible to my own reality as Cyfer in the movie.

Reality and illusions are in many ways of our lives but everything is up  to us how we live or how we see the truth.

Understanding genetically engineered

Somehow genetically engineered opportunities are coming into our world that represents some control into our “perfect society”. Where science is just a simple systematic enterprise in our lives, but most of the time we do not realize the mean concept into our lives. Where the solution is that we need to create a simple understanding of how this process could be capable of all our actions.

One general idea in our society is to be free in aspects like violence and with the best education possible. For example, genetic engineering and biological weapons are sufficiently dangerous and lethal in the way that genetic engineering is not necessary because these biological weapons could be used for any human without even any systematic knowledge on microbiology. Admittedly, George J. Annas’s idea is that humans must discover their own rights and dignity depending the nature to determinate the major events in our lives. Unquestionably, we have no clue at all of how humans are going to react in thousands years for now, but it is time to take a step to simply realized how it would be.

A great view on the text “The Man of the Moon” is how immortality could be defined and how we could easily reflect our lives in the future. People as today need to explore themselves to generate new projections to control these actions. Pursuing this further, “We now know that the Russians were never serious challengers in the moon race and that the prospects of the United States following the moon landing with a serious effort… ” (Pag 231); but many people think that everything was a com plot from NASA and the US Government. For instance, a film was made in2001 called A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon by just examining the evidence of a hoax where the main argument of this documentary is how the Apollo crew faked the distance from the Earth. Another moment is when the pilot from Apollo XL “Mike Collins” said "please do not ask me questions so that I won’t lie".

In conclusion, technological developments have grave implications for peace and security for many people, but it’s up to us how we are going to transform our resources with totally responsibility as humans’ beings to be aware that we have the control in our hands to be the masters of our own destiny.

"Oedipus the King" vs "The Matrix"

It is clear to define that ignorance could be anywhere at any time. By comparing the two main projects in the class such as “The Matrix” and “Oedipus the King” we could say that many concepts are into it like ignorance, knowledge and happiness. But what does it between them different from each other? However, we could see two main characters in every text Neo in “The Matrix” and Oedipus “Oedipus the King” both with no knowledge at all before knowing the truth they want to find out.

Two lands to discover knowledge in both texts. One is Thebes, the city in which all events take place and is deteriorating with infertile soil and as a result Oedipus “the king” wants to find the truth about what is wrong and has sent his brother in law to Tiresias “the oracle” to ask him for an advise.

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.