Allegory of the Cave Discussion

In class we finished the video about Plato's Allegory of the cave. It is about prisoners who sit in a cave and their heads are chained so that they can only see one way. They only see what the people who control them want them to see. One of the prisoners gets released and can finally see things differently in the world. He tries to tell the others of his enlightenment but they don't believe him because they are stuck with their own perspectives. We related this to Socrates and many social issues because people aren't willing to look at various perspectives and sides of a story or subject.