He writes an excerpt from Plato's cave: “It is the duty of those who are freed from these shackles and go uphill to the light and face the sun, to go back to the cave and share with the captors the effort and the prices, great or insignificant, and release them even at the risk of dying. Each class has a duty to contribute whatever benefit it can to the good of the city.”
How many and how many have not mentioned Plato's cave; How many have not associated it with the film “the matrix”; Although for the latter there are many readings, but this is a separate micro-story in itself. People who consider themselves awake, they have a duty to contact the others and tell them what they saw outside the cave. Of course they will face resistance, refusal. No one is ready’ definition to see another reality. The bonds are very strong. Even in everyday things, Mark Twain wrote (what do you mean you do not know its author “Tom Sawyer”;;;) that it is easier to deceive people than to convince them that they have been deceived.
Especially when it comes to issues related to their whole worldview. Their value code. Their principles. Faith. Obviously the one who will undertake to say something different, it is certain that it will not pass it loosely… (without getting wet well, see here). He should be afraid; He should keep his mouth shut;
Plato focuses precisely on this task of being freed from bondage. To speak. To share it. And as stated in the first paragraph of the short story, there are values that we seem to have pushed back in the back of our minds. Offer to society as a whole. The good of the city that we forgot and idiotized (seek to find out where the English idiot came from). Where is he going; We will be back…
Nine minutes of allegory and food for thought here.