That’s it. I have had enough
of flicking images on a screen
pretending to be reality.
That was a great movie.
That was the worse
movie ever made.
Whose right?
They will never know
because they are stuck
in their opinions.
Worse, they
confused their opinions
with reality.
You wouldn’t for second
believe that the movie
they just watched was
for real, so why would you
ever mistake your own opinions
for reality.
Opinions are always changing.
The philosopher, Plato said,
“The philosopher is in love with truth,
that is, not with the changing
world of sensation,
which is the object of opinion,
but with the unchanging reality
which is the object of knowledge.”
Translated, that means
get your head out of the darkness
where you are constantly fooled
by the flickering images of
opinions and step into the light.
Ugh, that is always uncomfortable.
Your eyes have adjusted to the darkness,
your mind is full of the seductive
images of the movie and
you step out into the bright light
and are reminded
that this is the real world,
and what you saw in there is not.
Nothing like daylight.  It illuminates
and is necessary for life.
and that is exactly according to Plato,
there is beyond this world, this appearance here
and unchanging reality that like the sun,
illuminates and is the source of all
that is permanent, whole, and one.
What Plato was trying to say to us
in his allegory of the cave
is that this is the movie –
the world of sensation and change.
Everything appears to always
be changing, especially opinions.
It was great.
It stunk.
No,wait a moment folks, you will never know what reality is.
You will never know. 
This is the movie! Right here! 
You must be Neo from the Matrix.
I think you should of taken the other pill. 
See, this is the downside
of seeing the Truth.
People are going to
think you are crazy.
It would be like
if I went back into the dark theatre.
I’d start bumping  into things and walls,
because I've grown accustomed to seeing the light.
I am no longer able to see in the darkness
where most people live.
Plato warned anyone seeking
the Truth that they
would be seen as foolish
if they re-entered the cave
to tell people that there was something
beyond the flickering images
being casted upon the wall.
They remain captive to
their own opinions and caught
in a web of illusion.
That can never be the case
for the person seeking
 true knowledge.
