Real Eyes

I was reading Ben's blog and I connected to his connection : )
Now, I don't much like big white fake bunnies because they scare me, but there were other parts of this video and song that I found haunting. Seeing the elephant fall down was wrenching as the words ask "Do you realize that everyone you know will die?"
Ouch. It doesn't get more blunt than that. And that made me think of a story in a book I have been reading called "The Elephant's Rope and the Untethered Spirit. the author tells about being in India and seeing a huge elephant tied by a thin rope to a tiny bush. She asked the elephant's master why the elephant didn't just walk away. The master said that when the elephants are young they use a heavy chain on a large tree to train them. They try to escape for a while, but eventually give up. After a while, the masters only need to tie something around the leg of the elephant, and the elephants assume they can't break the tether, whatever it is. The author uses the story to illustrate her point that we can be our own worst enemy, victims of our own assumptions.
I think that this is what Socrates is trying to tell us. Even though it makes him unpopular and even costs him his life, he keeps pulling and questioning to see if what binds him is a rope or a chain.
So Ben's video title was interesting to me to and made me think of having "real eyes" to see the truth.