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Sam
Allegory of the cave
In ancient times, people lived in the cave and they did not know how huge and
bright in the outside of the cave. If there a volunteer was taken to the outside world,
how would that person feel when see everything are not the same in the cave? Yes, it
is curiosity. As a proverb goes, “curiosity killed the cat.” From the curiosity, people
would try everything they did not know. However, there are some things to discuss.
First, in today’s society, we still live in the same style of the ancient cave man.
Because everything we know about is come from other people said. Just like the
volunteer which got back to the cave and talked about how fantastic and modern
outside world is. Although today’s communication is convenient and easy to get, there
still have people live in the forest and cave. And here is another question, how to
leave the cave? If I were the people in the cave and I was used to the living style in
the cave, how could it possible to make me leave the cave? To be honest, it is like the
feeling I talked about “Curiosity.” I would leave the cave not because I did not like
living in the cave but because I want to get more living knowledge of having a good
life. But I would be the last one to leave the cave, because I want to hear more things
about the outside world which the leaving people said. Finally, everything I heard
maybe like the shadows which was magnifying by outside people. I would not totally
absorb all the information because to see is to believe.
Nowadays, reality proof is quite important. People may believe what they see
and what they hear by more and more people’s words. If there only one volunteer
leave the cave, it is quite few people may believe his/her words. In contrary, they may
choose to follow the more and more reality proofs because it seems like a powerful
persuasion.