Comparing 2 worlds

In John Partridge’s Plato’s Cave and The Matrix where he says, “the real world in The Matrix is very like the world inside the cave.” In my comparison of my unplugged post I completely agree with this statement. The Matrix and the Cave is like a Dream world, where there are people who are still plugged or chained. In some sense people who are plugged in the Matrix cannot tell what is real from non real, but only what the Matrix wants them to see. Same goes for the prisoners in the cave, while chained they cannot tell if, as Partridge mentions, a chair is really there. But if released from his bonds he could get a better view, much like a person who is plugged into the Matrix they could see the real world for what it is if they were unplugged. This goes hand in hand from my topic people still not grasping the truth in our world today. Some of still blinded only seeing what our government wants us to see, in what they believe to be a perfect world, where everyone would agree on everything concerning, from wars, to schools, and etc.
I also found the topic of Partridge’s Socrates education of the cave and the matrix pretty interesting and in the same commonality to my statement. Partridge mention that Morpheus unplugged Neo and gave him the choice of either taking the road for the truth or live a life of illusions bound by the Matrix. I made a statement that would correspond to this analysis. In my unplugged post made a similar depiction of Morpheus and Neo’s resemblance to Plato and Glucon. Though Partridge is comparing Morpheus to Socrates, yet Plato is a student of Socrates. But the comparison of these three great men is that they gave their followers a choice in the matter. These gadflies so to speak all offer choice to their followers and giving them a chance to choose in what they want to believe in. as I said at the end of my post the choice is really up to us, whether we decide to believe in what the shadows tell us in the cave or let the Matrix run our lives. The choice is up to us, as the Oracle said, that we already made the choice now all we have to do is understand why we did.