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But... that's not even what the allegory is. It's an allegory, a metaphor. It's not that every single person in the world believes the cave to be all there is - the shadows on the cave are what the world seems like to someone who isn't educated (e.g. a lot of strawmen, InsaneTrollLogic that someone told you that you never thought to question, really, really inaccurate ideas about what goes on in places you've never been to.) The idea of being dragged out of the cage and forced to acknowledge facts you would rather not is ''where the word
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But... that\'s not even what the allegory is. It\'s an allegory, a metaphor. It\'s not that every single person in the world believes the cave to be all there is - the shadows on the cave are what the world seems like to someone who isn\'t educated (e.g. a lot of strawmen, InsaneTrollLogic that someone told you that you never thought to question, really, really inaccurate ideas about what goes on in places you\'ve never been to.) The idea of being dragged out of the cave and forced to acknowledge facts you would rather not is \'\'where the word \"education\" comes from\'\' (\"leading out\" from the cave). It\'s actually pretty immature to misunderstand this to the point that you think it means The Matrix.
