"Platón imagines some men who are prisoners from their birth in a cave, chained so strong that they can not move, there is a small hole where a ray of light enters but they only have the view directed to the end of the cave , the years go by and one of those children, who are already adults, manages to untie and leave the cave, when looking at the sunlight the eyes hurt, while the graduated little by little the view begins to see the shadows, the trees and soon he would see the moon and the stars, with fear the man who escaped from the cave thought that if he told his companions that where they were stuck (in the cave) it was not real they would make fun of him and if he tried to get them out of his unreal world they would kill him."
What does this myth that Plato tries to explain mean? the cavern is the sensible world, the unreal, what we only know at our sight, the outside world is the real world, "the intelligible world or ideas."
Venezuela in its return to the caverns, to the unreal world, of sensible things, moving away from the world of ideas; the ideas for Plato is the world of truth, of the intelligible as opposed to sensible things (unreal). Venezuela is in that cavern, in the darkest moments of its history; The Republic is no longer virtuous, as the virtue of justice, since the rule of law is unknowable, in this darkness of this unreal world we find all the citizens of this Nation, which does not see a way out of the supreme happiness, which is that of the republic, is to go back to that unreal world and be able to contemplate the light; that unreal world is about ideas, the ideas that Plato refers to are the political institutions that are in the hands of tyranny that assume all the power for a few in the most despotic way: where crime reigns, injustice and impunity over fundamental rights.
Venezuelans are submerged in this cavern, the cave is that sensitive world, in the shadow of things. Those shadows are the ideas of the Republican institutions that were once in the light, in that real world in which we reach that supreme happiness, that happiness that the ancient Greeks contemplated, the polis, of arete (brightness) in the city; That city to which Plato refers in his work of the Republic, is that condition of citizen.
We must leave these shadows, from the cave to the outside world, where we can see things in a real way, which is what we call freedom; But what kind of freedom? it is the political freedom envisioned by the ancient Greeks and Romans; It is the political freedom of the founding fathers of the Republican Constitution of the United States of America. That same virtue achieved by our heroes in the war of independence, by the struggle for freedom that today we all Venezuelans have to conquer.
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