Pancha Villa a.k.a. Skat Cat aka Grasshopper

"Socrates: This allegory is connected to the previous argument about the ascent of knowledge. The prison-house-cave is the world of sight; the light of the fire is the sun; and the journey upwards is the ascent of the soul into the intellectual world. My view is that in the world of knowledge the idea of the Good appears last of all, and is seen only with great effort; and when seen, is also inferred to be the universal author of all things beautiful and right, parent of light and the lord of light in this visible world [the sun], and the immediate source of reason and truth in the higher world [the world of Forms]; and this is the power upon which he would act rationally either in public or private life must have his eye fixed.
Glaucon: I agree, as far as I am able to understand you.
Socrates: Moreover, you must not wonder that those who attain to this wonderful vision are unwilling to descend to human affairs; for their souls are ever hastening into the upper world where they desire to dwell; which desire of theirs is very natural, if our allegory is to be trusted.
Glaucon: Yes, very natural.
Socrates: And is there anything suprising in one who passes from divine contemplations to the evil state of man, appearing in a ridiculous manner; if, while his eyes are blinking and before he has become accustomed to the surrounding darkness, he is compelled to fight in courts of law, or in other places, about the images or the shadows of images of justice, and is endeavouring to meet the conceptions of those who have never yet seen absolute justice?
Glaucon: Anything but surprising.
Socrates: Any one who has common sense will remember that the confusions of the eyes of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from coming out of the light or from going into the light, which is true of the mind's eye, quite as much as of the bodily eye; and he who remembers this when he sees any one whose vision is perplexed and weak, will not be too ready to laugh; he will first ask whether that soul of man has come out of the brighter light, and is unable to see because unaccustomed to the dark, or having turned from darkness to the day is dazzled by excess of light. And he will count the one happy in his condition and state of being, and he will pity the other; or, if he have a mind to laugh at the soul which comes from below into the light, there will be more reason in this than in the laugh which greets him who returns from above out of the light into the den.
Glaucon:That is a very just distinction.
Socrates: But then, if I am right, certain professors of education must be wrong when they say that they can put a knowledge into the soul which was not there before, like sight into blind eyes.
Glaucon: They undoubtedly say this.
Socrates: Whereas, our arguement shows that the power and capacity of learning exists in the soul already. Just as the eye was unable to turn from darkness to light without the whole body, so too the instrument of knowledge can only by the movement of the whole soul be turned from the world of becoming into that of unchanging reality, and learn by degrees to endure the sight of reality, and of the brightest and best of reality, or in other words, of the Good.
Glaucon: Very true.
Socrates: And there must not be some art which will turn the soul about in the easiest and quickest manner? It is not the art of implanting the faculty of sight in the soul, for the exists already, but to ensure that, instead of looking in the wrong direction, away from the truth, it is turned the way it ought to be.
Glaucon: Yes, such an art may be presumed."
~Plato's Republic: Book VII: Allegory of the Cave.
My existence is that I am just another grain of sand. An insignificant bacterium magnified to full capacity. But I can finally say that the shackles have been loosened. I will no longer be cast looking at the shadows. Like Socrates states a professor cannot bring sight to blindness, but one can be a guide to the journey to enlightenment. The only factor that is left is getting adjusted to the changes that will cross my path. At any rate, “Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness” (Leon Trotsky). So with all that said. My name is Brenda. My major is Philosophy/Law and Society at UC: Riverside. And well if you would like to know more about me, than you can just message me. I must warn you that I’m: cynical, random, spontaneous, and well you could fill in the rest.