"The Allegory of the Cave" and "Harrison Bergeron" Response

Both of these writings were quite interesting in their thoughts and ideas. I will have to see that "The Allegory of the Cave" was rather thick and hard to follow. It was definitely written by a philosopher. I have read "Harrison Bergeron" before, and it was very intriguing to read and reflect on again.

"The Allegory of the Cave" had a very interesting take on learning. I will completely honest is saying that I will need to discuss and analyze this to better understand it. However, I deciphered ideas of allowing people to learn what they want. A legislature can only run on people who are interested and in to what they are doing. If a person is running the senate that hates it, there will no progress because there is no drive to get a job done. The interest level has to be present to succeed...I hope for more insight Professor Wright...

As for "Harrison Bergeron", the setup of a story made the idea easier to understand. The fact that everyone was made equal by literally handicapping everyone is a very unique spin. The satire is addressing equality, but maybe he is also stating that everyone is going to learn differently and vary in levels of intelligence. To handicap people is to stop the progress of society. If everyone is forgetting their thoughts every thirty seconds, what is there to gain? There is a role for everyone in society, and suppressing the individual ideas of people in many subject areas is the death of a culture.

Both stories address liberal learning in different ways. "The Allegory of the Cave" has underlying ideas that math those of Dr. Nussbaum and Giamatti. On the flip side, "Harrison Bergeron" is in a way stating that suppressing liberal learning and its effects would be a ridiculous idea.