Bacon's four idols

Bacon stated that knowledge is power, and through technology (which feeds our knowledge) civilization is getting better. Bacon has four idols that he states society wrongly worships. These idols are tribe, cave, marketplace, and theatre. Idols of the tribe are reflections of ourselves and not those of nature. This is an idol of humanity and it inflates our power of thinking and causes us to believe that what we see is completely factual. Basically, Bacon is saying that we need to get out of our own way if we want to see the truth.
Next, is the idols of the cave. Bacon uses the cave to illustrate people who have not gone out into the world and seen with their own eyes and made their own experiences. These are the people who believe what others tell them, and Bacon states that we need to go out on our own and learn from our own experiences.
The idols of the marketplace illustrate the meetings of people with one another. The marketplace is known to be an area where people gather and communicate. Bacon says that these idols are because language gives us false seeing. Words often betray their purpose because they obscure the actual thoughts they are used to express.
Finally, idols of theatre illustrates the idea of a play showing a false world. Life is a stage in itself, and the theatre idol is that of a false world. This idol shows the false worship of our society to groups of theology, philosophy, and science because society follows everything these groups say because they are usually people of education. Therefore, we believe what they say must be true, and don't question them.