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Saturday, December 14, 2013
No 20/20 Vision
While reading the different mythology plays I have noticed that selective blindness has been an important theme all throughout. In the story, Oedipus the King, Oedipus isn't literary blind, until he stabs his eyes, of course. In the beginning of the play, he is told by Teieisias that though he can see he cannot fully see. He blinds himself from the truth and only sees what benefits him. Just like Oedipus, we also have selective blindness. I have found myself doing it quiet often as well. We only focus on what we want to be true, however, we don't look at the whole truth of it. For example, I have a friend in which I have known since 6th grade. Lately, I have noticed how much she has changed but as stubborn as I am, I denied she had changed. I thought maybe it was just me, and so I pretended everything was fine. I didn't want to think that maybe our long term friendship might be coming to an end, for no apparent reason. However, I now noticed that everything happens for a reason, we must always have our eyes open and look at the whole aspect, not only what we want to believe.
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I see exactly where you are coming from. We see and believe what WE want to see and believe. We can't judge others for being selectively blind if we are also doing the same. We need to learn how to open our eyes and see things as how they are.
ReplyDeleteI didn't know that selective blindness was actually something people do (or at least something that had a name for it). I feel for Greek and Shakespearian tragic heroes because in the beginning, you root for them to win, but they end up messing everything up. In Oedipus' case, he chooses what he wants to see and ignore.
ReplyDeleteThis is a great connection, because we are quick to criticize Oedipus until we are in his shoes. Of course, a blind prophet isn't coming up to us saying "Hey you killed your father and married your mother" but it's similar. You don't want to believe that you and your friend are fading away so you just try to act like things are the same as before.
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