Allegory of the cave

Plato theorizes through a dialogue on how those who have no education will automatedly presume to ignorance. The notion of the cave is our knowledge about the world; what we’ve been told. For example, a simple correlation between the cave and mainstream media. A pedological space for realms of stupidity and over — exaggerated lies. Since birth, we form a pre-conceived notion of morality. In the cave, they examined what shadows were. In the cave we live in we theorize what the value to existence is, but society distracts us from what our value to life really is. From useless knowledge about the value of “X”, it distracts us from really exploring our existence as humans. Plato implies that the journey to exploration is vital for us to develop as humans. The source will only get you half way there, Montag as the access to books but can’t articulate them, that’s why the other half is predicated off the articulation off the books. Millie personality is veered towards being dependent on being comfortable, the “outside world” would blow her mind and make her feel so uncomfortable that she’d want to come back to the cave. That’s not the case for Montag, he would never come back to the cave, his quotidian thrive for knowledge shows that he will always be fascinated by the wonder to the new world. Faber being a professor would be the person to leave the cave and explore, being blown away by his discoveries he’d share it with the others lie Montag and how it can change one’s whole perspective.