Plato's Cave

There was once a community of people that lived imprisoned in a cave. For all their lives they sat chained up just staring at a blank cave wall.

The prisoners could not see what was behind them, just what was in front. Behind them was a walk way and a ledge with a fire. People would walk back and forth carrying objects that would cast shadows onto the blank cave wall.

The prisoners would see these flickering reflections of weird shapes and beasts, the voices of the people echoed off the walls and so the prisoners assumed the sounds came from the shadows.   

After years of this, one of the Prisoners 'Jeff' noticed his chains were loose. He wriggled and was soon free of them. Being the first time in his life not in chains he took a while to adjust then he eventually got the courage to look behind him.

He saw the fire and these CNUT's walking back and forth. Upon being noticed the CNUT's grabbed Jeff and threw him out of the cave.

Jeff was sure having a rough day. He could barely see as the sun was so bright but when his eyes grew accustomed to the light settled he saw trees, rivers, grass, sky and of course a Starbucks. He saw that people dressed differently and behaved differently so he endeavored to fit in and even set of a Twitter account gaining at least 214 followers. Not all of them bots and people with podcasts or trying to sell something either.

After a while of experiencing this new life he remembered his beginnings. He recalled all his friends chained up and looking at the wall. He could never go back to that meager existence, the Internet was after all full of free porn.

Jeff put on some beard oil, waxed his mustache and grabbed his man bag. He set off for the cave.

He carefully sneaked past the CNUT's and found the prisoners. He told them about the shadows and the fire, he told them about the wonders of the outside world such as bacon.

The prisoners who hadn't known any other life refused to believe him and called him insane. Being inside the cave again meant that Jeff had gone blind and unable to see in the near darkness. This led the prisoners to believe that being thrown out of the cave made you go blind and from that point on killed any CNUT that tried to banish them.

Jeff now run a vegan shoe shop in Oregon with his partner Starlight.

You may want to share your knowledge and experience with others but you have to understand that not everyone will be ready or at that point in their life to hear what you have to say.         

Also that there are CNUT's everywhere, even in caves.