Puppet Or Even A Slave

The class current class theme is one that can make your head feel as though it will explode if you dwell on it for too long. We can't see our world as fake or illusion if we've never seen what it really is. So in my opinion, just like its been discussed before, is to live in the now. When looking at the analogy of Plato's cave, the concepts of puppets was brought up. Are we really puppets being controlled or written about in someone's novel maybe. But I'm reminded of a Jimmy Cliff lyric from the song "The Harder They Come." When I was a kid my mom used to play this album religiously, along with "American Beauty" and "So Far" by the Dead and CSNY respectively. Anyway the lyric goes, "I'd rather be a free man in my grave than living as a puppet or even a slave." In the context of the cave, I think this can mean we need to understand what we can control and what we can't. Because so much of our world is left to fate, but not all of it. We as people living in this dream can make a future for ourselves, but we have to learn how to make it happen, even if it comes to fruition in another time.