08-12-2004, 10:22 PM
People will demonstrate hostility toward a man if he persist in his beliefs or tried to convince them to abelieve otherwise. They would not want to face the possibility that their idea of reality is flawed. In addition, they would fear that they would become blind (unable to see the only reality they have ever known) if they looked at other views. As Plato explains in his cave allegory, "Men would say of him that up he went and down he came without his eyes; and that it was better not even to think of ascending; and if any one tried to loose another and lead him up to the light, let them only catch the offender, and they would put him to death."
Plato points out that prisoners (society) would rather commit murder than allow anyone to take them out of the cave (their reality). They would fight to stay in the cave because it is the only world they have ever known and it is where they feel safe.
Man wants to bend everything and everybody to thier obedience. They feel that if everybody obeyed, they'd be happy and safe, at peace, and free.
But only safe unless they opposed him, only happy unless they disliked him. Only free unless they wanted something contrary to his will.
Plato points out that prisoners (society) would rather commit murder than allow anyone to take them out of the cave (their reality). They would fight to stay in the cave because it is the only world they have ever known and it is where they feel safe.
Man wants to bend everything and everybody to thier obedience. They feel that if everybody obeyed, they'd be happy and safe, at peace, and free.
But only safe unless they opposed him, only happy unless they disliked him. Only free unless they wanted something contrary to his will.