Analogy of the Cave...
One of my favorite philosophy in life that I usually follow is one with regards to Plato's cave. One of my favorites, and I do believe that the Matrix or other sci-fi stories, are pretty much made from the inspiration of this analogy -"Imagine a dark, subterranean prison in which humans are bound by their necks to a single place from infancy. Elaborate steps are taken by unseen forces to supply and manipulate the content of the prisoner's visual experience. This is so effective that the prisoners do not recognize their imprisonment and are satisfied to live their lives in this way. Moreover, the cumulative effects of this imprisonment are so thorough that if freed, the prisoners would be virtually helpless. They could not stand up on their own, their eyes would be overloaded initially with sensory information, and even their minds would refuse to accept what the senses eventually presented them. It is not unreasonable to expect that some prisoners would wish to remain imprisoned even after their minds grasped the horror of their condition. But if a prisoner was dragged out and compelled to understand the relationship between the prison and outside, matters would be different. In time the prisoner would come to have genuine knowledge superior to the succession of representations that made up the whole of experience before. This freed prisoner would understand those representations as imprefect - like pale copies of the full reality now grasped in the mind. Yet if returned to the prison, the freed prisoner would be the object of ridicule, disbelief, and hostility."
Now, you have an overview of the analogy. Many times in our life, we do something that is beyond the norm, but rather than being believed in, we are killed by the perception of what others think is "normal".. Ladies and Gentlemen.. there is nothing so "normal" in this world.. those claiming so should first define the otherwise!
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