2/1/12

Ignorance is bliss, this very common sentence holds a lot of truth is a lot of people's lives We fear the things that we don't understand and what we don't know. For example, we tend to fear the dark because we don't know what's lurking in the shadows. But what about when those fears start holding you back from leading a better life. The metaphor of the man chained to the back of the cave is a good example. The chain's represents the things that hold us back life being "blissfully ignorant", the authorities, and our own habits. Habits was a chain that really interested me because I never really thought how the way that we do things can push us more into the cave than helping us progress in life. But there are more than these few examples that hold us back, anything that fights us from leading an examined life is considered a chain. It is hard to fight these chains because sometimes it involves changing the way you live life as you know it and by instinct we fight that. But as Plato said, "There is more to the world than shadows in a cave".