….. We are asked to imagine a group of people chained from birth inside a cave. All they can see is the wall in front of them and the flickering shadows cast upon it. To these people the shadows are reality, even they are merely illusions, or, to be more precise, imperfect copies of the real objects that exist outside the cave.

Our world is like this cave: We humans are shackled by our ignorance of the true nature of reality, which for Plato consists in his ideal forms. If we wish to see the world right, we must struggle out of the cave into the sunlight. It will at first dazzle and blind us, but if we persevere, we will begin to see the real world instead of shadows. Only the philosopher, who is carefully educated as well as thoughtful and persistent, will be able to attain anything close to this true knowledge; the rest will be content to stay in the cave and watch the shadows dance.

Anymore I cannot say. I am of the opinion however that the seeing is not only for the philosopher but also for the rest of us, if we are willing to take on dealing with our own ass and master the crap out of it.