The Alegory of a Plato's cave is simple.
You're happy while you live in the darkness - this is ignorance.
Then you emerge into the light - you are scared, but you are becoming enlightened.
You get used to it, it becomes part of you, then you return to the cave. You are stuck in a world of ignorance. Of course, then, you want to help enlighten everyone else... but the only way they can be enlightened is to go out and see that light for themselves.
This is how it is for all of us. We can be told over and over how to emerge from ignorance, but the only way we can do that is to step out on our own and experience that ourselves.
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Innominate.
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