For centuries, human have always been interested in studying their own behavior, some of their hypothesis have already been proved and some are still waiting for an answer. One that is known for more than two thousand years is when people are espoused to a new philosophy different than what they used to believe for life. I believe that as soon as the individual is identified with the new ideology, he could and will not be the same person any more.
In “The Allegory of the Cave” we found the first step bout this theory. Plato in his book “The Republic” gives us a parable told by Socrates, his professor, to Glaucon, his brother; in which people have been living in a cave limited to see the real world, and then one of them is released to see the creation for the first time. Later he tries to go back to his original place, but the people that he left behind can not get along with his new perceptive.
when I was a child I used to think that people could never change their economic status. I remember when my best friend from elementary school and from my neighborhood, Miguel, moved to another place. His family had to leave not just because the west cost of the city was more cleaned, or more quiet and perhaps because is from where the people seen to have a peaceful life. It was because his father, who worked at a financial institution, had been promoted has a branch manager. So the income that the Polancos had at the time it was unreachable for the rest of the families in the town. I did not like the idea that my friend was living. I could not imagine him been friend with those kids who had the best cloth and always the best bicycles and all the baseball equipments. I could not pictured Miguel there. The reason was that they were crossing the line.
Another experience that I have lived about the ignorance is when I passed my first Easter season in NY and noted that not Everyone is catholic in the world. I was only twelve when that happened. in my country, The Dominican Republic, There is only one religion which is the Roman Cattle. I used to think that every big Friday no one work, and that during the forty days of the season everybody could eat anything instead of meat. So I was chocked when I found out the realty. I could not blame my grand mother when I told her that my wife, who was raise in a protestant religion, became catholic in order to married me at the church. My mother asked me that where was her that she had not had her first communion at the age of twenty five.
So learning from my owe experience and adopting that idea that Plato wants to give us, I am always willing to accept a new ideology in my up-coming period of life.
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