Media's Influece On Our Perception

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Many times people do not like to get out of their comfort zones and try new things. Many years ago Plato created an experiment which would not be possible to recreate; he wrote a story called the Allegory of the Cave. In Plato’s Allegory of the Cave prisoners are chained together facing a wall only to see the shadows created by the prison guard and only to hear the echoes of their own voices. One prisoner was let out of the cave to observe the reality and inform the other prisoners who were in the cave. When the prisoner described the reality to the others, they did not want to believe it and killed the experienced prisoner. Plato’s Allegory of the Cave describes the very nature of human beings. Plato argues that there is a flaw in how we humans mistake our limited perceptions as reality, truth and goodness. Today we are still chained to a wall, but that wall is the media and stereotypes.

American society today believes the stereotypes they see on the television, in movies, and even in books. Many times people mistakenly believe in the things they see on the news or in the media and...

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