tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28089527.post-63465000647648521322008-06-10T02:07:00.000+01:002008-06-10T02:07:00.000+01:002008-06-10T02:07:00.000+01:00<B>Dr Rant, with all due respect, you are one ignorant SOB.<BR/><BR/>Observe, <I>Robert A. Crouch</I>:</B><BR/><BR/>In the Country of the Blind the On-eye Man is King, or so thought Nunez, the protagonist of an H.G. Wells story who finds himself the sole person with sight in a community of people who have all been blind for fifteen generations. <BR/><BR/>Surrounded by persons he considers disabled, Nunez sets out to convince the inhabitants of the country of the blind that they are missing out on a great deal because of their blindness. Despite his best efforts, however, the blind are not persuaded by his rhetoric, and Nunez, exasperated by their lack of understanding, shouts: "You don't understand...You are blind, and I can see." Broken, Nunez gives up his attempts to convince the blind of his superiority and in an interesting role reversal he <I>himself</I> becomes the subject of an attempt to be assimilated into the community of the blind. Convinced that all of Nunez's talk about such obvious nonsense as "sigh" and "blindness" is due to the effect of Nunez;s prominent eyes on his brain function, the community doctor proclaims: "And I think I may say with reasonable certainty that, in order t cure him completely, all that we need do is a simple and easy surgical operation -- namely, to remove these irritant bodies" -- his eyes. To which a blind elder replies: "Thank Heaven for science!"<BR/><BR/><B><BR/>We cannot judge them entirely based on our perspective alone. You are only seeing the things they miss, but you fail to see that which they love.</B>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com