…y are hostile to people who want to give them more information. Therefore, Plato is suggesting that “your philosophical journey sometimes may lead your thinking in directions that society does not support.”[3]Education and Plato’s Allegory of the Cave3.3K36Anam LodhiElias EliadisFollowJul 30, 2017 · 1 min readAnd this is exactly the reason why Socrates had to drink the conium.