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...real horror in Blindness is therealization that humanity is not in control ofitself--that at the root of all hope, ambition anddreams lies an apathetic demon shrouded in ablinding white nothingness. This stale emptinessis unnoticed by the seeing. Eyes allow one tocover oneself in images, to construct oneselfcomfortably out of the things one sees--to blindoneself, in essence, to the true nature ofhumanity. When sight is gone, and the eye isforever turned inward, the horrifying epiphanythat life is white, pure nothing becomes, inBlindness, the deepest horror imaginable
...ends-justify-the-means rationale is both a moral fiasco and a logical pretzelism. It feebly attempts to justify the convenient self-interestedness of a socially irresponsible "career" by miraculously spawning an altruistic intention to "direct funds toward" the world's betterment, after the fact. Why spend life canceling oneself out? Why imbue some corpulent, guilt-ridden check with the vicarious virtue that life itself could have epitomized...
...spiritually bankrupt plutolatry--as if money were anything other than a means to some end. Though earning money is necessary, especially in light of the considerable economic constraints that many face, the risk of buying into this money-as-God mentality is no less than the risk of stranding oneself in an ultimately groundless existence...
...that is accurately measured by an IQ test. Rather, he said, we have several separate intellectual capacities, each of which deserves to be called an intelligence. The seven intelligences are linguistic, musical, logical-mathematical, spatial, bodily-kinesthetic, interpersonal (the ability to understand others) and intrapersonal (the ability to understand oneself). More recently, Gardner has added a "naturalist" intelligence...
...gold medal that McMullen received has a profile of Archimedes--the great Greek mathematician who discovered a method of calculating pi--and the quotation "Transire suum pectus mundoque potri" meaning "Rise above oneself and grasp the world," according to a press release from...