Imagine - Prisoners held in a cave Slaves shackled by the legs and neck since childhood Thus they stay in the same place Such that there is only one thing for them to see
A wall
Behind them is a fire which casts a light upon their backs Now imagine that between the fire and the prisoners Their masters travel to and from a path What do the prisoners see and hear?
From the beginning They have known nothing of the world but shadows And the noises surrounding them They would believe that what they sense constitute all of reality And attribute the sounds to those shadows Rather than the ones who cast them
Suppose now that one of these prisoners were released And while inspecting his surroundings He turned his gaze upon the fire His eyes, so used to the dim light, would be blinded
Initially he would refuse to believe this was real But in time he would gradually come to the understanding That the shadows of his past had been a lie An illusion created by the burning fire
He was now free
In this enlightenment, he would attempt to convince the others That the world they knew was false And a greater reality existed where they could not see But being blind to the world behind them They would reject his words and think of him as a madman
They would not understand . . . They could not understand . . .Teksty umieszczone na naszej stronie są własnością wytwórni, wykonawców, osób mających do nich prawa.
