One application could be when people thought the sun went
around the earth instead of the other way around, like we know today. The
“cave” would be the people that believe that they are better than others, and
the general population would be the “prisoners”. The idea that everything in
the solar system goes around the earth are the “shadows and voices”, and people
wanting to believe that they are
better than others are the “shackles”.
The escapee is Galileo Galilei and he finds that the sun doesn’t go around the earth,
that in fact it is the other way around! (This, by the way, is called
“heliocentrism”). Galileo tries to spread his discoveries (he is now rescuing
the prisoners) of how the earth moves around a stationary sun, instead of the
other way around. However, the “prisoners” don’t believe Galileo when he tells
them of this crazy idea of the earth going
around the sun, instead of the other
way around?
Eventually,
the “prisoners” escape because they finally come out of denial and see the
logic in the “real world”. Galileo keeps trying to convince the “prisoners” but
they keep refusing to believe him until he dies. However, even then, it takes
them a really long time to realize
that Galileo was right, and the “real world” actually exists.
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