Nowadays, almost everything is based on a decision. People make choices every day. That involves, waking up and either go to work or not go to work, getting to a certain place on time or just get there late, going to the right or going left, etc. As we can see, selections involve pros and cons; and that’s probably what affects the people when they make a choice. Sometimes we are put to so many circumstances in which either selection won’t really be as beneficial as we really hoped for. When parents try to take care of their kids sometimes they can be a little overprotected, and cause them to not realize how things are really. And that’s when the Excerpt from the Republic comes to mind, leading us to the question upon the cave; what position would be best? To live ignorant of the truth but safe in this cave’s comfort or to confront the blinding truth and indifference and rejection by the society including the people you are familiar with?
The best position, in my case, would be to just face the horrible truth even though it involves the indifference and rejection of the society because as sad as it seems it is the truth. On the other hand, imagine being in a cave where you might feel comfortable and even safe, but you don’t know what is going on out there and you’re just ignorant of what is currently occurring. In other words, you’re living a lie. Being in that cave for a long, long time and suddenly going out of it would be of extreme shock for anyone that’s been inside avoiding the truth. That’s what we can see in one of the excerpt’s paragraphs where it says: “when any of them is liberated to stand up and walk and look towards the light, he will suffer sharp pains; the glair will distress him and he will be unable to see the realities…” This shows us how that person will feel if he/she was put somewhere that they never saw because they were blinded by that cave that they were so used to.
As I stated in the introduction, parents and their overprotected children can be a perfect example of this excerpt. Overprotected children have much more trouble dealing with situations later in life, than children that were just independent from the beginning. This is due to the fact that parents solve their children’s issues rather than give them a chance to overcome the problem themselves. Likewise, when too much control or order is imposed in children they are bound to being unable to cope with challenging situations as well as discomfort. When linking over parenting to the passage, the example is evident when Glaucon says: “how could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads?”
Dealing with the truth can be tough as well as having to make a decision. These are some of the factors humans deal with in their daily lives. That’s why when being blocked from reality, problems that come along in life can be harsher to overcome. However, facing it can lead to deception for anyone but at least you know what’s currently going on. This idea can be associated to overprotected children as well because they are blocked by their parents throughout their early lives to avoid them from certain issues. This turns out worse for the children as they grow older as it’s even tougher for them to be able to overcome quandaries in their lives. In other words, the truth can be a definite breakdown for anyone but mostly for those who were ignorant about it for a vast amount of time as in the situation from the Excerpt from the Republic.
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