The allegory begins with prisoners who have been chained from childhood inside a deep cave. Their heads and legs are fixed so that they can only look at the wall in front of them. Behind them burns a fire, and between the fire and the prisoners is a low wall. Along this wall, people carry statues, animals, and other objects, whose shadows are cast onto the wall the prisoners face.
Perhaps it’s both. Perhaps it is the internet’s way of admitting that we are all just prisoners staring at glowing rectangles, ranking the shadows, arguing over which projection is the most "real," while the actual world carries on outside the cave. deeper angie faith allegory of the cave 20 hot