Blog 2: The Allegory of The Cave.

In the late 1600’s, there was a little known event, dubbed “The Salem Witch Trials”. This was a time period in between 1692-1693 where women living in colonial era Massachusetts were prosecuted for being witches. This all formed when a few sick girls developed what was recorded to be severe schizophrenia. After the girls started acting up, multiple counties of Massachusetts decided to hold trials for people (men and women after many people were prosecuted), that were believed to be practicing witchcraft. This was a dark and strange time in America’s history, also a very delusional and very strange time.

The people accusing the “witches” of Massachusetts were Religious fanatics that hid behind their Bibles and lopsided laws, which leads to why I have chosen the Salem Witch Trials as an illusion to The Allegory of the Cave. The fanatics decided to completely forget about reality and completely disallow people to LIVE, just because the accusers noticed things they were doing, that the accused have been doing for ages. It’s just the point that people will believe anything when you have the government and Religion backing your ideals. This happens all the time in the world we live in, even today, people hide behind laws and Religious values instead of think for themselves, with the brain they were given. Why people continue to think ignorantly, I don’t know. I can understand trusting your government, or practicing your Religion, but at the same time you need to have a mind of your own.

The people that were accused of being a “witch” were most of the time murdered, or as they would have said it “exterminated” for what was false accusations against innocent people. People were hung for doing things slightly different than the rest of the population. It’s wrong, no matter what time period or what land you live in, it just proves that delusional minds and mindless beliefs can go farther than the ones with an actual heart behind them.

The witch trials happened during a time when people were still afraid of being attacked by Native Americans, which can explain the paranoia in the land known as Salem. Though, it makes sense in a strange sense, but at the same time it doesn’t justify murdering men and women for being witches. Why anyone would go that far, I’m not sure, but they did it, and it happens more than we’d like to think around the world. People are being accused of witchcraft and black magic in third world countries every day, even though some may actually be legitimate resources, it still makes no sense to execute a person, take a life for mere paranoia.