Blog 7: The Allegory of the Cave through History

Blog 7: The Allegory of the Cave through History

Throughout our history many people have had this illusion of the American dream. People believe that moving to America will bring peace, equality, and freedom to their lives. Immigrants have this idea that when they move to America their lives will be a lot better. For example, they believe that they will find a job, make money, and live in a nice home but what they don’t realize is that it’s not very simple. In order to live a life like this you have to make a decent amount of money by getting a good paying job, which without a good education is very hard to get. Even then those people are often discriminated against because of race, religion, or beliefs. Due to this discrimination they don’t receive the same opportunities that everyone else does. According to our government we live in a democracy, which allows everyone to have social equality by voicing their opinions towards our government. This is also an illusion. To be able to vote there are certain requirements such as: you have to be 18 or older, a US citizen, a legal resident of the US, and have committed no crimes. All of the people who aren’t eligible to vote are not able to express their opinions and therefore they have no say in what goes on in our government. The American dream is to have equality and freedom but people are blinded by this illusion and fail to see the reality that exists in our country.