I cannot tell you how hard it has been to face the destruction going on right under our noses. If your long-held views of reality are collapsing know this is a journey you must make in order to find the light. The truth. The events going on in our world are not as they appear. So the task becomes what to do about this. It reminds me of Plato's Parable of the Cave.
This "is an allegory presented by the Greek philosopher Plato in his work The Republic to illustrate "our nature in its education and want of education" (514a). It is written as a dialogue between Plato's brother Glaucon and Plato's mentor Socrates, narrated by the latter at the beginning of Book VII (514a–520a). The Allegory of the Cave is presented after the metaphor of the sun (508b–509c) and the analogy of the divided line (509d–513e). All three are characterized in relation to dialectic at the end of Book VII and VIII (531d–534e).
Plato has Socrates describe a group of people who have lived chained
to the wall of a cave all of their lives, facing a blank wall. The
people watch shadows projected on the wall by things passing in front of
a fire behind them, and begin to ascribe forms to these shadows.
According to Plato's Socrates, the shadows are as close as the prisoners
get to viewing reality. He then explains how the philosopher is like a
prisoner who is freed from the cave and comes to understand that the
shadows on the wall do not make up reality at all, as he can perceive
the true form of reality rather than the mere shadows seen by the
prisoners.
The Allegory may be related to Plato's Theory of Forms, according to which the "Forms" (or "Ideas"),
and not the material world of change known to us through sensation,
possess the highest and most fundamental kind of reality. Only knowledge
of the Forms constitutes real knowledge.[1]
In addition, the Allegory of the Cave is an attempt to explain the
philosopher's place in society: to attempt to enlighten the "prisoners."
Plato's Phaedo
contains similar imagery to that of the Allegory of the Cave; a
philosopher recognizes that before philosophy, his soul was "a veritable
prisoner fast bound within his body... and that instead of
investigating reality by itself and in itself it is compelled to peer
through the bars of its prison."[2]"
Source: Wikipedia
So the journey begins when we make that step outside of our formerly held comfort zone. Our eyes are wide open and we want the truth. We can handle the truth. We see patterns and they don't fit. We trust our intuition. Our gut tells us people are lying. The media is lying. Our government is lying. Surprised? Think about the Boston Bombing? Do you think the brothers were set up?
Which road will you take?
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