Plato Video

Today in class, we watched a video about perspective kind of and it was really weird to me. It was about these prisoners and they were chained in this dark room for life and all they did was look in one way and watch shadows all day and night. They didn't know anything about the outside world, all they knew was what they saw in the dark room and that was it. One day, one of the prisoners were granted to go into the real world and see what it was like. He was very confused because he didn't know anything about the real world but loved it. When he went back into the dark room, he realized it was all and illusion and the other prisoners laughed at him because he finally had a mind of his own. It had a symbolism behind it all, about how people are brainwashed and don't know anything for themselves until they realize things about the real world.