It's far easier to go through life excepting everything you are taught, and never challenging anything or anyone. Later he goes on to talk about how in ones lifetime he has the chance to excommunicate himself from the "cave" (prison) and gain more knowledge about himself and other people. ... But you can't just live your life on your own, Socrates says: later you are going to have to come back to society and even though things may not be right there, at least you will know who you are, and see things as they truly may be....

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