Monday, December 15, 2003
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The Blind Theory
Another night for some more random ramblings by Deng the Great Rambler Extraordinaire. Anyways, I have this theory, no it does not have anything to do whatsoever to the meaning of life. However, it does have something to do with life and society in general. Now here is the basis of my theory. As human beings, our primary sense is vision; it is the passageway to our aesthetic pleasures and it is a basis of our lives. Now lets consider something else; something different. We see beauty with our eyes, and no matter how we argue how great beauty is, it is unnegotiable that beauty carries along an attribute of bias. We will always treasure the beautiful over the lesser. This is essentially neither a good nor a bad thing. The good is that beauty brings us aesthetic happiness and thats always good. However, it does hinder us from many things in the world such as completely pure compassion, equality and judgement. Imagine the blind man, the world being the dark void in which there are no colors nor shapes. There are no association of anything to visual objects or ideas. A blind man since birth will not see a cat as a cat. They will feel, sense and hear the cat, essentially a much better interpretation of a cat than just a visual representaton. When we apply this idea of how the human psyche will apply imagry to certain things, we can see how we are biased toward things which possess aesthetic qualitites compared to those which lack them. We would certainly pick a good-looking car over a poor-looking one. But what if that poor-looking car had a turbocharged- twinscroll turbo engine? We'd never know. This is how this theory applies to society. We will judge the people we meet by how they look. No matter how holy, how disciplines or good-willed we are, we will always have that tendency and it is something that we cannot escape. But the blind man, he will never have such a handicap. He will only hear the voice of the person, interpret the thoughts and judge a person by simply what they can hear or feel. The blind man can see the world so much more clearly than we all can. We fool ourselves with our immersion in aesthetic values and are content with such things as we can see with how much fashion and beauty is valued in our society. Compassion, judgement and ideas toward people are all forcefully distorted by our inherent vision. We will never be able to understand what is under the skin, what is under all the temporary and finally see the permanent. Only the blind man can possess true compassion, only he can feel the sorrow of those in need without seeing their rags. Only the blind man can offer true judgement and understand those in the world who can actually change it for the benefit of humanity and not for the dollar. Only he can see all people upon an equal plane without giving advantages to one or another. "Only the blind man sees with eyes unclouded and no matter how hard we try, we will always be blind."

So here's my question, is God blind?
Stephen at 11:47 PM