Plato's "Allegory of the Cave"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckwiweDMgeQ

The link above is to a somewhat modern day allegory of the cave by Plato. In the video above it is called the allegory of the garage. The person inside is in a garage playing video games and that is all he knows. The video games offer the only view of the world he sees. Video games are an alternative to the real life but seem life like. For example games like Grand Theft Auto you are a character running gangs in a large city except when you die you come back to life. Many kids these days take video games as a real life thing and if you die or your friend dies they come back. Things do not work this way in the real world. In the video eventually the character gets tired of the video games and his mind wanders thus he discovers the outside world. When the character discovers the real world he ventures outside and discovers many things. When he ventures back to the garage or cave he looks at what he thought was the real world and realizes it was only a lie and stays in the real world. This depiction of an alternate reality of video games applies to today’s kids and lives. It is a modern day illusion of life for kids it is almost scary at what video games do to today’s kids. We need to get outside and see the real world and stop watching TV and playing video games and wanting to have an alternative reality.