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It's like the blind leading the clueless.
If you believe that humans can improve their lot, I have been told, that means that you have a blind faith and a quasi-religious belief in the outmoded superstition and the false promise of the myth of the onward march of inexorable progress.
It comes from information that is freely available and out there, but that we are willfully blind to, because we can't handle, don't want to handle, the conflict that it provokes.
She shows that people who are born with sight and people who are congenitally blind do this when they win at a physical competition.
They're blind to the hypothesis.
They're blind to the conditions.
And their first recommendation of how to fix this problem, because it is a problem, because it sends us all down blind alleys, their first recommendation of how to fix this problem is to make it easier to publish negative results in science, and to change the incentives so that scientists are encouraged to post more of their negative results in public.
As Chaucer said, "Love is blind."
Three hundred and fourteen million people are visually impaired, and 45 million of these are blind.
So blindness is a big problem, and a lot of these blind disorders come from inherited diseases, so we want to try and better understand which mutations in the gene cause the disease.
Multiple infections of trachoma can leave you permanently blind.
The disease leaves eight million people permanently blind each and every year.
So planning has this blind spot.
It binds us into teams that circle around sacred values but thereby makes us go blind to objective reality.
Stop looking where you're going, turn, check your blind spot, and drive down the road without looking where you're going.
Take, for example, providing a guide dog for a blind person.
It costs about 40,000 dollars to train a guide dog and train the recipient so that the guide dog can be an effective help to a blind person.
It costs somewhere between 20 and 50 dollars to cure a blind person in a developing country if they have trachoma.
You could provide one guide dog for one blind American, or you could cure between 400 and 2,000 people of blindness.
So let me, from my personal experiences, give you an insight, so that you can step back and maybe understand why it is so difficult to cope with the challenges of today and why politics is going down a blind alley.
And our fears led to a blind faith in the orthodoxy of austerity.
A disease which killed hundreds of thousands in India, and blinded half of all of those who were made blind in India, ended.
Willful blindness is a legal concept which means, if there's information that you could know and you should know but you somehow manage not to know, the law deems that you're willfully blind.
We're all, under certain circumstances, willfully blind.
What the research shows is that some people are blind out of fear.
And some people are blind because they think, well, seeing anything is just futile.
These are people of immense persistence, incredible patience, and an absolute determination not to be blind and not to be silent.
We can either be complacent about our future, taking as an article of blind faith that any new technology is guaranteed to be beneficial, and just repeat that to ourselves as a mantra over and over and over again as we drift like a rudderless ship towards our own obsolescence.
We include everyone: the young, the elderly, the disabled, the mentally challenged, the blind, the elite, the amateur runners, even moms with their babies.
There are 37 million totally blind people on our planet, but those of us who've shared in the technological changes mainly come from North America, Europe, Japan and other developed parts of the world.
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