Today during class, we had difficulties with the video. The sound wasn't working so we had to use someone else laptop. The video that we watched was about 5 people that were locked inside of a cave and tied onto a bar. They were there their whole lives. The only thing they could see was shadows of figures on a wall. These figures on the wall was clay figures in front of a fire high up so that the the 5 people are able to see the shadows. The 5 people would ask questions and guess what the figures are. One day, there was man that came into the cave and let loose one person. He told that person the truth behind what he was seeing on the wall. He was then free and was able to go out into the world and see what the world was really like. When that person returned to the cave, his eye sight got worse and he couldn't see the shadows clearly like he used to. The others laughed at him and made fun of him.
My thought on the video is that people who are always locked in are not able to learn the truth. Those who go out and look at the world logically, we are able to learn the truth.
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