Plato's Cave

Hmm..well now here is to a real nerdy entry..lol
you see my school has this really really weird module which is kinda like philosophy only we are not allowed to call it philosophy because it sounds like so crazy it you say that 15 yr olds are being taught philosophy. but yeah in essence it pretty much is philosophy.
Okay now some people have a misconception about erm philosophy that its fun and interesting and if you go online and key in Descartes or Plato or Socrates i can assure you you will find several articles that will capture your interest and might even make you want to search a bit more. Yeah Yeah its all fun and good.
But its kinda stops being such a treat when you have to it in like hour long lectures every single day listening to over hyper or over dead teachers talking about shit which doesn't make sense at all. Trust me at that time, the bubble gum under the chair of the LT seems way more interesting.
So yeah i guess when we started off with Plato's cave in MI I seated my butt in the LT and turned myself off. The usual ritual i do to preserve my sanity, But then the matrix started playing on the screen and i woke up from my slumber, it continued for lk two lectures. Okay ill admit it i was pretty awake this time. But then the lights came on and the ramblings about some "allergy" started and i tuned off again.
Well this Thursday we have to hand up an essay on this allergy( which i figured later is an allegory). And when i finally got down to reading it its actually quite interesting.
So what Plato says in this thing is that humans believe only what they have been taught to believe. We form our opinions not based on what we think but based on the norms of the society and on the opinions of the people before us. For example if since birth we had been locked up, without any communication with the world around, and then shown two faces and asked which one is prettier, there is no saying that we would chose the one with the better features or the smoother skin. Yeah it sounds darn obvious now, but really its not like we had been born knowing whats pretty, we think its pretty coz the people around us think its pretty. Hence we humans are just like sheep, with no opinions of our own. The same goes for opinions on justice and truth.
Is the world around us really true or is it just a fabrication, a memory, something we are being made to believe? Now supposing you take that person who has been in that one room since birth and take him outside, the new things he sees would shock him and the light of the world outside would scare him. It would hurt his eyes and he would be scared seeing the new animals and water and other strange creatures. when finally his eyes are not blinded by shock anymore he would be scared. At this time probably the person would choose to return to his room, without fear of the new.
The Plato things goes on way beyond this, i mean its this whole thing with lots of truth in it. really
I'm not wacko for putting this up. seriously. it kinda does explain a lot of stuff. Like why people are afraid to accept the new pr why we think what we think.
ha ha
I think in some way we all can link our lives to Plato's cave. Go ahead guys and read up on it. Its Plato's Allegory of the cave.
and if you read up and think its bull crap don't kill me. hey i have to write an essay, of course I'm supposed to like it!

which reminds me i have 1500 words worth of essay left for me to write!
back to work!