Incarcerated in Social Media
Thesis: “To the casual observer, social media appears to accurate source of information about certain
event across the world , but a closer examination, through the overall framework and specific
symbolism in Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave,” demonstrates this understanding is limited , like
seeing in a world of shadows, and the true reality is that social media depicts inherently biased
and heavily distorted picture about that certain event presented from a perspective that lacks
insight and first hand experience but conforms to the…show more content…
Then there are the chains, tools used to focus the attention and
mind of a person to the shadows being cast just like a blinker used to prevent a horse from seeing
but what is in front of it. They restrict the prisoners’ movement and compel him to view the shadows
in which he is through time engrossed. Thus, the prisoners are doomed to see nothing but the
shadows and erroneously perceive what is presented to them is reality at its best. Throughout their
lives they have been seeing these contours of reality and their minds have been corrupted by outlines of
the truth which are presented as a whole. After this, one day the teacher comes a frees a prisoner from
the cave and brings him out to light which represents a knowledge that there is indeed a world than the
cave.
When we examine social media through the lens of Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, we discover that the
the cave is the ignorance of believing what is presented is a story told from multiple perspectives or
better firsthand experience. The chains are devices like computers, cell phones that are used to immure
people. Because these electronic materials are accessible and affordable, they present
Thesis: “To the casual observer, social media appears to accurate source of information about certain
event across the world , but a closer examination, through the overall framework and specific
symbolism in Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave,” demonstrates this understanding is limited , like
seeing in a world of shadows, and the true reality is that social media depicts inherently biased
and heavily distorted picture about that certain event presented from a perspective that lacks
insight and first hand experience but conforms to the…show more content…
Then there are the chains, tools used to focus the attention and
mind of a person to the shadows being cast just like a blinker used to prevent a horse from seeing
but what is in front of it. They restrict the prisoners’ movement and compel him to view the shadows
in which he is through time engrossed. Thus, the prisoners are doomed to see nothing but the
shadows and erroneously perceive what is presented to them is reality at its best. Throughout their
lives they have been seeing these contours of reality and their minds have been corrupted by outlines of
the truth which are presented as a whole. After this, one day the teacher comes a frees a prisoner from
the cave and brings him out to light which represents a knowledge that there is indeed a world than the
cave.
When we examine social media through the lens of Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, we discover that the
the cave is the ignorance of believing what is presented is a story told from multiple perspectives or
better firsthand experience. The chains are devices like computers, cell phones that are used to immure
people. Because these electronic materials are accessible and affordable, they present
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