This touches on something I neglected to say (shocking, isn't it? :) ) yesterday: Thinking outside the box, especially when around the sighted, often creates jealousy. This creates even more alienation; if you threatened the power elite by showing them that their power is at best illusory, they tend to want to kill you rather than embrace your message. How many people have been assassinated for this reason, right? So, even if you do believe that education of the sighted is a possibility, an achievable goal, when you finally do convince the sighted that the "disability," they saddled you with isn't really so much a disability as a temporary stumbling block, and may even be an advantage at times (I can't tell you how many mountains and trails I and my various dogs have led sighted people off when darkness came), they often want to make the box even more ... boxy ... than before, not less. One of the reasons why I don't have a large peer group (or ... any peer group *grin*), I think, (and I realize I'm being too prideful here, for which I apologize) is that I have a lot of abilities that the people around me either don't have or have in lesser degree. It confuses hell out of your every day person when you can lead them off the mountain in the rain and the dark, but you need help with something simple, like an unfamiliar ATM or something. While the strong are not afraid of their weaknesses, this dynamic view of strength is not the norm. The more able you get, often the more alien you become.
Mark BurningHawk Baxter Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 MSN: [email protected] My home page: http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
