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Tags: A Controlled Peasantry - Richard McDonough - americanthinker.com, Between the prisoners and the fire there is a road along which “puppet-masters” carry objects that cast shadows on the back wall of the cave, In his “Allegory of the Cave” - Plato’s character - Socrates - paints a striking picture of people kept in chains from birth deep in a cave, Plato’s allegory is not a strange fancy - It is meant to describe the human condition, Socrates: Imagine people are kept in an underground cave from childhood - their legs and necks in chains so that they can see only in front of them, Some of the puppet-masters speak - others are silent, The “puppet masters” have kept them in a state of complete illusion about both themselves and the world, Their “reality” is an insubstantial parade of flickering shadows dancing before their eyes, There is a fire behind them casting shadows on the back wall of the cave, When Glaucon says these are strange prisoners Socrates says - “They’re like us” - We are the prisoners in the cave
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