Enlightenment
“The allegory depicts people living in a cave, which represents the world of sense-experience. In the cave people see only unreal objects, shadows, or images. Through a painful intellectual process, which involves the rejection and overcoming of the familiar sensible world, they begin an ascent out of the cave into reality. This process is the analogue of the exercise of reason, which allows one to apprehend unchanging objects and thus to acquire knowledge. The upward journey, which few people are able to complete, culminates in the direct vision of the Sun, which represents the source of knowledge.” (Britannica) I believe it is true that some poverty stricken communities lack the will to succeed in society today. On the other hand, the same could be said about the wealthiest of society. Michael Singreen, a former resident of the uptown Fontainebleau neighborhood killed his own father and hospitalized his mother. He is now being charged with Murder in the First. In my opinion, a child of two lawyers does not know what struggle is. The parents’ have candy coated life’s actuality. According to Mr. Singreen, he was tired of his parents.
I am not pleased with my own mother, but I would never kill her. I will say if I were a magical being, I would have no problem coping with her if she was a ferret. Yes, she belongs in a jail. A facility that I could be in charge of in a perfect world would suffice. My mother has been a kleptomaniac since age 2. She has stolen from everyone she is related to. This woman stated to me on my 5th birthday, “Jennifer, daddy died at work on a submarine.” In January 2008, the phone rings and it is my deceased father. My kleptomaniac mommy tells me when I confront her, “Well I divorced him, and then he did not want to speak to me anymore. I meant he was dead in a figurative sense.” In what society today do you know any 5 year olds that know what figurative means? “Knowledge begins with a perception of these earthly shapes,...