Plato's Allegory of the cave is all about escaping this dark place that we are in. These "prisoners" have spent their entire existence in this cave thinking that these shadows they are seeing is their actual reality. They are chained down to the floor, with no escape route given to them. In their minds, this is their only existence and there is no way out. This idea of only being trapped in this cave with only one real sense of reality, is just what media does to us today. We read things, watch things, and see things on the internet or TV everyday that sways our views to only be one way. We automatically believe it because it was in the media, so it must be true. Just like there shadows are the only reality they know, the medias influence is the only influence or knowledge we know when we consume our everyday lives in it. It wasn't until the one prisoner learned how to escape and discover the world, he became known of the real reality and what is really out there. Once we as people are influenced or encouraged to look beyond the media, we are able to see what is really going on out in the real world. Therefore, we're able to form our own opinions and not ones that are pressed onto us.
(Here is my shitty drawing of the cave, aka the dark hole)
