2400 years ago one of the world’s most famous philosphers discussed his vison of life by using a cave. In the allegory a group of prisioners have been chained up in a cave since birth unable to move independently they start to believe the whole world is just the shadows they see on the cave wall. Then one prisioner is freed, seeing the outside world for the first time. When he learns the sun is the source of all the things he’s seen and that there are real objects cast from the shadows he grew up believing were real he goes to tell the prisoners what hes learned but they think he’s the one that wrong and resist. Plato is using this to describe what he felt as a philospher trying to educate the public. Most people are not only comfortable in their ignorance but hostile to those who point it out. How can we know that things outside the cave are anymore real than the shadows? Can we be sure about what we know, perhaps one day a glimmer of light will shatter your assumptions, will you struggle towards the light or stick with familiar illusions? They are a lot of us in the cave.