Truth vs. Reality

"To [the people in the cave], the truth would be literally nothing but the shadow of the images." In the world today, people are being governed by the puppeteers of the modern day. The chained are just pawns in their scheme to prevent the truth from being revealed. Examples of this can be seen in China's media. In the past years it has surfaced that there is a censoring issue in China. An example of this is the monumental figure of freedom, the Tank Man. Whenever a user from the United States or any country other than China searches for the Tank Man on Google images or some other search engine, they come up with this influential picture:



In China, the government has created a full censorship of the public's media. Whenever a user searches Tank Man on Google china, there will be no such image. Because it is such an influential image or freedom and lack of government control, the image is blocked to prevent anyone from viewing it. To refer to the Allegory of a Cave, the Chinese people are seeing nothing but shadows of the truth. The truth is hidden behind a sheet of lies generated by the government. They are chained down in a cave of lies and deception. "But is not the deception more freedom for them?" (Sñr. Marquez) There are "enlightened" individuals in the society too. Some Chinese citizens have set up radio stations and video channels that project the truth about current happenings in the world.

Through the deception and the projection of shadows the Chinese people have found ways to become enlightened and spread their knowledge to the rest of their people.