There are prisoners in a dark cave, they are chained and can only see shadows on a wall. To them, the shadows are the truth, because that is all they know, they don’t realize they are just a shadow of objects that people are holding up against the light of a fire.
A prisoner escapes and makes his way out of the cave – when he sees the sunlight for the first time it hurts his eyes and he runs back into the cave. But after a while his eyes adjust and he goes back out again. He realizes how beautiful the light is. He begins to realize the cave was not the reality – not truth, but that the light is what is actually beautiful and real.
The point – that is what living in society is like. If we choose to believe everything people of authority & power tell us, if we accept what we read in the paper or on TV as being the truth, guess what – we’re one of those prisoners chained in the cave.
Many perceived injustices in the world, created, manipulated and illusioned into existence by naive participants. Those controlling the shadows of deception will never be first and foremost for truth, as lies is their power and game; government, media etc have slavery, child abuse, rampant violence, hunger, homelessness etc. Why? Because are content to stay chained down in that cave, believing what those with power and money want them to know.
2019 and Plato’s Allegory of the Cave – written 380 BC (allegedly).