Testing
- posted by Rob Skiff @ 3:05 PM

 
Andy Howe
Mission: Contemporize the Allegory of the Cave
10/13/03
Gregg Burette is a twenty-year-old male attends a prestigious college and succeeds in the world. Burette has always done well; he excelled in all of the prescribed courses and hung out as one of the guys. He did well in sports and chilled hard with everyone else he knew, he never thought to question anything such as the meaning of life or anything else within its realm.
In Gregg’s past, he attended a school that practices early philosophy and received parts of education for becoming an independent philosopher. At age eleven Gregg decided he wanted to switch to the public school system in order to be able to participate in sports. When Burette entered the public system, he experienced a huge clash in morals and behaviors from the original school he had attended, the issue of people being mean to each other had risen, competition because no one had really acquired a real sense of individuality, and people all having a sense of homogeneity. Ever since then he had been a part of the public school system which extended through high school where he ate up any garbage thrown at him just like any other human being.
During the summer after completing two years of college, Gregg became very ill and lost twenty pounds in one month, and then later lost another twenty. He attempted to survive college, but after a week it was painfully apparent that college was out of the question for the moment, he could not continue in the, “game” anymore. The game being his daily rituals at college, of superficial acts such as drinking comes along with being in a fraternity and such. When he arrived at home, he was immediately thrown in the hospital where they ran tests and tried to cure him with every drug on the market, but apparently all the drugs that usually work on patients with the same case did not work on him in particular causing them to want to take out his colon.
At this thought, Gregg stepped aside and said that he could not comply with this. So he left the hospital and began his search for an alternative, the truth. He had been done dealing with the conventionalism of medicines and thinking illusions that he had been fed and ate with a hungry mouth for all his life, he was on the prowl for the truth.
Through this search for the truth and alternative resources for finding his cure, Gregg began to appreciate and love learning about himself, his true essence, and his meaning of life, his true path. Gregg had begun to wake up and become conscious of the illusions that he had been ingesting for so much time, realizing and discovering truths and flaws in the illusions illuminated by the higher powers of the nation and world. Burette began to philosophize about the world, its beings, how things worked, ultimate truths, and what his path was, this was the start of his becoming of a philosopher. Through these experiences and philosophies, Gregg realized that all the stuff, being the illusions, and propaganda that he and others had been consuming really does not matter and that he needs to deal with what is and find ultimate truths in order to truly succeed as an individual.
“The finally I suppose he would already be in a position to conclude about it that his is the source of the season and the years, and is the steward of all things in the visible place, and is in a certain way the cause of all those things he and his companions had been seeing.” (516 b,c) In this quote Socrates is referring to the sun as the source of the ultimate truth and how once one finds it they are able to realize how things become confused in it and how illusions are illuminated from it of it. In other words, confusion dealing with illusions and how they are all based off of the truth but are skewed in differing degrees. Thus, Gregg has begun to see how his reality has been skewed by illusions and he has begun unraveling the puzzle of truths and philosophy.

- posted by Anonymous @ 1:09 AM

 
Johnny: You bring up an excellent point, being that, 'Why be good and work to earn something, when you can just snatch it without any work at all.' Suprisingly this seems very sensible to many of the majority of states, even if they do practice thievery or not, but would you say if one were to provide insight from another angle? Being, doesn't it take work to become a thief? One does not simply make a living off stealing from others, it requires intelligence and mucho effort. Why wouldn' t such an individual apply their efforts towards making their living the just and honest way? Why do people insist on committing crimes? Is it out of hate? Rebellion? The thrill? What, what, what? Tell me wise teacher of the lands... Where art thou answers? Why do people do these things? Are they blind because of failures in the past in attempting to succeed the correct way?? Or what? I beg for a response johnny...
- Andy
*p.s. no funny business
- posted by Anonymous @ 7:31 PM