An interesting photo to reflect on in light of Plato's Allegory of the Cave to compare "the effect of education ( παιδεία ) and the lack of it on our nature. " I could summarize it for you, but instead, I leave you with the photo above and the Wikipedia article, which nicely summarizes this thought experiment by Plato. For me, the most striking and profound point of this comes when the prisoners try to leave the cave. Seeing the Sun, and reality, they experience too much pain, and so they prefer to return to looking at the reflected shadows on the cave wall, refusing to believe that the shadows are not reality. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_Cave It explains why so many people don't want to see a better, less negative or fearful way of living. Emerging from the cave and seeing the sunlight, after so long believing in shadows on the wall, causes them too much pain.