Most people ,including ourselves, live in a world of relative ignorance. We are even comfortable with that ignorance,because its all we know. But once you go beyond your ignorance you will not ever want to go back to being ignorant.But the people don't want to go beyond and if any one goes beyond and tries to tell other people about the realities of the world they ignore him and live the way they have been living all their life.
The same way in Plato's "Allegory of the Cave". He explains that prisoners are tied with chains,facing a wall in a cave so they cannot move.Behind them, a fire is blazing at a distance. Between the prisoners and the fire there is a road or a passage. They could only see whatever passes through that road. It created a shadow on that wall. Men carrying various materials which appeared over the wall as a shadow and the prisoners only recognized one thing in their life are those shadows.Among them a prisoner was released and he went out of the cave and saw the colors of the world and learned new things and came back to the cave again to tell his mates about the outer world of the cave but all the other prisoners thought that he is also the same shadow that they see every day and didn't recognize their mate and never tried to learn what he was trying to teach them.
In the same way the Truman show is on the same pattern. TO BE CONTINUED.............
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