The solid world exists, its laws do not change. Stones are hard, water is wet, objects unsupported fall toward the earth’s center. With the feeling that he was speaking to … and setting forth an important axiom, he wrote: “Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows".
-- George Orwell’s 1984
We all have a duty to seek enlightenment - however we define that rather pretentious-sounding term.
And we all have a duty to talk with others about where we are and what we're learning.
Plato's Allegory Of The Cave (short clip - none of it is this easy):
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