He uses the cave allegory to highlight how human beings will not survive the darkness unless they act together and be led by a philosopher king who leads them to the light. ... The fact that this allegory applies to any person in any circumstance proves that it is indeed our unchangeable nature to be political. ... Since the primitive clans of the cave man to our modern day sophisticated society, politics has always been the fabric of governance. ...

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