Ignorance really bliss?

Ember - Port Matilda, Pennsylvania
Entered on April 8, 2009
Age Group: Under 18
Themes: question

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This I believe that America is in the Cave. The Allegory of the Cave by Plato is something that describes how I live my life every day. I choose to leave the cave. I have always questioned everything; everyone should strive to ask all they can and continue to ask until the day they die. Americans, I have noticed have remained in the cave because to them ignorance is bliss. This is wrong if you don’t know what I going on in your own country then you shouldn’t support a political party because you don’t know much about the issues. This I believe QUESTION EVERYTHING!!