An overall occurring theme in most of the seven contexts we read in class is the truth, films such as the matrix, Gattaca, and Minority report, and texts such as Oedipus the King and the Allegory of the Cave. This theme has grown apparent throughout the semester and has caught my attention personally as an issue with nearly everything we do.
In The Matrix, Oedipus the King, The Allegory of the Cave and Minority Report, the Protagonist is always searching for the truth, whether it is about the past, their future or even the truth about themselves or what they know or once knew. A Major theme also in these 4 contexts is how the truth may or not be about dandelions, roses and pretty colors. The truth could very well be far worse than anything you could have imagined. But, in many cases as human beings, they strive to search for the truth regardless of what it may be.
Personally the truth is a very important thematic tool used in many contexts, and plays a very important part in everyone’s life. Throughout the semester I realized just how important this connection is to me as well as everything else in the world and universe. As an example I was at dinner with my mother this Sunday, discussing the implication of a divine creator and why people need something to believe in whether it was true or not. We came to the fair conclusion that people don’t need it, and in fact leave many people in “Plato’s cave,” and that the day humans band together and search for the actual truth is the day the human race evolves a step further. But without knowing the truth we are still left in the cave, thus creating an artificial truth provides a temporary relief for many.
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