Allegory of the Cave from Plato

For starters, I find it hilarious that I wasn't the only one who was at first confused with this story in the beginning. I was puzzled by the choice of words and vocabulary. After getting through it, I couldn't help but to have this image of modern day society dawn upon me while reading it. For instance, the passage "...here they have been from childhood, & have their legs and necks chained so that they cannot move..." is where we are today! Especially when correlating this with the workforce. All we're doing these days are waking up when we're told, going to a place we'd most likely rather not be at, and enduring enslavement. Slavery never ended, it just took a different turn!