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The main people who control
the access to knowledge would be the show people in the case of The Allegory of the Cave, who are moving these puppets as
they wish. These people might be the educated. As you can see in the movie the Matrix, Neo does not
control the access to knowledge in the virtual world. How did those who had lived in that world escape it to understand how
the matrix worked?
For example, Morpheus lived in the matrix world for a long time and
somehow learned to distinguish how the world worked the matrix. At some point, he was able to see beyond
the world to know the truth. Another example is from The Allegory of the Cave, when Socrates states, “and
if he is compelled to look straight at the light, will he not have a pain in his eyes which will make him turn away to take
and take in the objects of vision which he can see, and which he will conceive to be in reality clearer than the things which
are now being shown to him?”.
Reality cannot be totally controlled.
There are those who can see beyond the projected reality to see a truth.
Scholar
in our society can control access to knowledge by selecting what is knowledge.
Since scholars are specialists, they have the choice of what to teach to their learners. Each scholar has his
own way of teaching their specialized branch of knowledge. What they teach enables them to control knowledge. In the
case the movie, “The Matrix,” scholars are represented by the agents, who connect the cables into
the peoples' skulls. These agents are the puppeteers of knowledge.
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