A Bagatelle of The Road to Perdition

"The Allegory of the Cave" has been wrongly interpreted on the 6th floor - I would argue that the interpretation is wrong until the paradoxes of - a) the allegory itself  b) the actions of the man who saw the ideal world surface and present themselves too good to ignore

Here is the story - First, of the "Allegory of the Cave" to refresh everyone

Socrates describes a group of people who have lived chained to the wall of a cave all of their lives, facing a blank wall. The people watch shadows projected on the wall by things passing in front of a fire behind them, and begin to ascribe forms to these shadows. Socrates suggests that the prisoners would take the shadows to be real things and the echoes to be real sounds, not just reflections of reality, since they are all they had ever seen or heard. They would praise as clever whoever could best guess which shadow would come next, as someone who understood the nature of the world, and the whole of their society would depend on the shadows on the wall.
Then a supposed "wise man" at least the wisest of the prisoners performed the biggest leap of mankind, turned around and saw that the shadows and echoes represented other entities - truer, more empirical and more tangible. He realized that there was light outside the cave and saw that the things of which the shadows represented  were colorful and more pleasant to the eye.
He then turned back and told the rest of the prisoners what a beautiful and real world they were missing. No one believed the wise man - instead, due to his radical act -  they blinded him, never to see the world again.


The allegory has since been open to interpretations - on the 6th floor it has been interpreted as follows:

A guy  - "the supposed wise man" once dreamed of delivering the rest of the floor from the bondage of labor - or extra "Unpaid" labor if you will. He was willing to shake the foundation of the organization by seeking help from the government. He recruited people to join him in his cause. Contrary to the prisoners in Socrates' dialogues, subversive groups supported his journey to a "better" working environment. They have established a strong group that never succumbed to the rules and regulations of the organization - as if inspired by George Orwell's "Animal Farm" or Marx himself.

Now - to the people who know what is happening and what is about to happen - think about this - The Allegory of the Cave was written thousands of years ago - it has not been defied by meek attempts to follow the genius of Marx and Engels - and it should never be wrongly interpreted - EVER.

To the subversive folks out there - "Never follow a blind guide - if you do, make sure you leave one eye open"