Sight & insight                  by Rima Sayegh Janho

 
This issue's featured article is directed at "sight correction" using laser, which is one of the newest & most sophisticated minor surgeries performed in the west & even in the Middle East. Correcting sight by laser substitutes the use of eyeglasses & even contact lenses.
Old dreams are becoming true due to the ongoing scientific research & advanced technologies. After cornea surgery & giving back sight to those who lost it, anybody today can make use of the new technologies for sight correctness, thereby ridding the use of annoying eyeglasses.
Here, I go back in memory to a piece of news I read in a well-known journal about a woman (from an underprivileged society) who lost her sight 25 yrs ago. This woman was finally able to get back her sight after being subjected to cornea transplant in one eye. Once she saw again, she started roaming the world, traveling from one city to another, from one neighborhood to another and from one street to another. She stated that the large buildings, bridges, & the brightly lightened streets did not impress her, but rather she was deeply saddened by what she saw of today's obnoxious culture:
-         youngsters lost in the nightclubs
-         universities full of corruption
-         a programmed criminal world dominating people
-         sheep lead by wolves
-         enslaved nations claiming democracy
-         poverty, deprivation, & helpless nations
 
 

 

The most frustrating of all is the media picturing the murderer as the victim & the victim as the murderer; news & pictures that bluntly notifies you that the sea pours in the rivers & that the moon gives light to the sun …
Nobody has the nerves to tell the truth… As if these nations have been heavily brainwashed or hypnotized. In addition, if you try to search for a home movie to watch, you are stuck with two choices; either you watch a no-taste-no-smell movie i.e. a no-meaning movie or watch the last of Hollywood action & highly visually effected movies that can cause you goose bumps.
This woman refused to get the second cornea transplant. She said:" What I saw with one eye got me to hallucinate & suffer profoundly; I don't want to get mad."
Why am I remembering this story now? … I do not know …

Maybe it is better for people to use eyeglasses when they need it, instead of being forced to see what would engrave their mind seeing & blinds their insight

 

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