After reading Allegory of the cave I couldn't help but feeling a bit like the prisoner seeing the light. Socrates states, "And if he is compelled to look straight at the light, will he not have pain in his eyes which will make him turn away and take refuge in the objects of vision which he can see, and which conceive to be in reality clearer than the things which are now being shown to him?"
It's true that in our society people will believe what they have been taught to believe in. They will reject any other "truth" that doesn't match or complement their "own truth" or "own reality". It takes people a while to start believing hypothetical things. Fact is people need facts, and weather or not they believe those facts to be true all depends on what they know. but none the less rejecting something new about the reality we know seems to be a normal process in the way we take in new information.
Oscar wild says- "I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect."
What do you think?
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