“There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true, the other is to refuse to believe what is true.” - Soren Kierkegaard
In my upcoming book, An Unorthodox Truth, I open by discussing Plato’s Allegory of The Cave. I discuss the allegory in my October review but with a different rendition. The main lesson we need to take away from the parable is that our perception of the world is how we view reality. It doesn’t matter if our perception is correct; however, if that is how we view the world, that is how we live our reality.
As you can see, this can have disastrous consequences. If I were a would-be ruler, all I have to do is control the population’s perception, and I could then control their reality. This act is done in many ways, from education to science to religion and so on. This is the power of narratives. Here’s a quote by Bertrand Russel describing the power of education and how it can frame one’s perspective:
“…The social psychologists of the future will have a n…
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