Blog Entry 6 Review Socrates' and Plato's Allegory

           In "The Allegory of the Cave," Plato shows us how a group of people see their shadow as the reality world. When a person gets out of the cave and discovers the exactly real world, he tries to tell his fellows the truth, but they don't understand him. When he gets back from the real world to inside the cave, they do not believe him also. If people block themsleve in certin area, their minds and visions will becom shallow. I agree with Socrates' and Plato's philosophy and how they view this intellectual world by using this parable.
          This allegory reminds me the similar situation that happen in China when I was a kid. In school I were told that my country was the best because we lived in the socialist country. Capitalist country like America is the worst and people there were very poor. That was Mao's era and people were brain wash. Even though China was poor in that period, we still believe what Mao said and proud of our country. We were all tricked by Mao's lies. Chinese people became ignorant and backward because Mao closed the door and blocked any news from outside of the country. We couldn't see outside the world and we lived in our own world with nothing to compare and without knowing the world was changing. After Mao died, Deng Xiao Ping opened the door and people suddenly woke up. When Chinese people realized what was going on in this world, it was too late, China was far away behind other developed country. When I immigrated to America I knew the truth that I was taught wrong when I was a kid. This is a good example to tell us how sad if people are prohibited from knowledge of the world.
          Although I lived in a restricted era when I was little, there is something that I could do. I remember I liked to watch the sky when there were many stars lighting up in the sky. My mother always came to me and we counted those stars together. She told me that each star represents different things and people, and the sparkling one was me. I always thought that those sparking stars were so little, but they were still too far to reach. I was so curious about stars and things around me. As I grew up, I learned more and I understood more. Stars are not little. They are planets, including our earth. In the article, people were chained and they couldn't move, but their mind could not be chained. I believe, as human beings, we have the ability to open up our minds and fix our vision to reach the intellectual world.