Thursday, January 15, 2009

the allegory of the cave pt 1.

i was in my PBL class yesterday and my tutor/prof told me an enlightening story from dear old Plato. hope you guys haven't heard it before cuz i pass it on here and ask you guys to think of what it means:

There is a group of people who've been chained and imprisoned in a cave all their lives with no exposure to the outside world. They forever sat facing only one wall of the cave with a fire pit burning behind them. Every so often, there are puppeteers who'd come into the cave and perform shadow puppet plays on the wall for these cave people. Through the plays the cave people develop their own sense of the world outside of the cave. happy dandi. one day, a cave person breaks free from imprisonment and decides to trod out of the cave and actually explore the outside world. This guy lives amongst people in the outside world and adapts to the outside norms. Time passes and he decides to go back to his cave friends and tell them all about the wonders and happenings in the world outside the cave. When he goes and does this what do you think his cave friends did?

a) break free and join him in the outside world
b) sit on their butts and complain they'll never get to experience what he did
c) ask him to teach them of the workings of the outside world so they can adapt it in the cave
d) become angered then kill him
e) laugh at him and accuse him of being mentally deranged

i leave my blog here for you guys to pick one and say why you've chosen your choice. My next blog will finish the story. NO CHEATING BY LOOKING UP THE STORY ON GOOGLE! lol it ruins the fun.

here's a visual to accompany the scenario:

5 comments:

Anita* said...

i shall choose "e" lol. hurry, im a little excited to see.

Pin The Tail On Jenicka P. said...

D yo. Motherfuckin cave men are primative, they'd think he's nuts and dispose of the problem aka outside exploring caveman so they can go back to their pupper fire show. haha

Anita* said...

ok i totally looked it up cuz i was too impatient lol

Jean said...

lol ANITA! i would have posted sooner but i was waiting or veronica to reply too. haha i'll wait a bit more then to give her a chance to reply since u already no now

Veronica Quach said...

E