If I were born in the fourteenth century, I’d have died a long time ago. Wait, that didn’t come out right. Let me rephrase. If I had lived in the fourteenth century, I wouldn’t have lived as long as I have. Ah. Much better.
You see, I have really poor vision. I’m not legally blind, but it would have been difficult for me to make a living at anything in the 1300’s. Maybe I could have been a monk copying bibles or something. But it’s likely that I’d have been trying to eke out a living begging for food. It’s even more likely that I wouldn’t have survived at all.
Had I been born a hundred or so years later I might have fared better. With the invention of eyeglasses that correct myopia, I would have been able to function well enough to increase my chance of survival.
But back in the 1300’s, I would have probably died young and without kids. After all, what self-respecting wench would want to marry a guy who was, for all practical purposes, blind?
Of all my siblings, I was the only one who was nearsighted. 700 years ago, my brothers and sisters would have done well for themselves, gotten married, had kids and passed their good eyesight genes on to those kids. But not me.
However, after someone invented glasses, even people with horrible eyesight, like myself, could be successful enough to pass along the poor eyesight gene to their kids.
Like many people, I didn’t realize my eyesight was bad until I put on a friend’s eyeglasses. Then I was amazed at what I could see. I had been seeing everything incorrectly for my entire life. I just didn’t know it. I thought everyone saw what I saw because I had never seen anything else.
I remember when my son, the son my wife and I passed along our bad eyesight genes to, got glasses. He was in the third grade. With the wisdom that comes from being eight years old, he said he’d wear the glasses once in a while, but he didn’t think he’d need them much. Then he tried them on. Every day from that day forward, he wore his glasses. Once he had his eyes opened to all there was to see, he didn’t want to stop seeing it.
Lasik surgery, contact lenses and plain old everyday eyeglasses make it possible for people who are nearsighted to thrive, but myopia still remains hereditary. Meaning those same people with artificially-corrected vision have a good chance of passing along the bad eyesight gene and making even more nearsighted people.
While corrective lenses and surgeries have made people see better, those same lenses and surgeries are responsible for even more people having poor eyesight.
Scientists predict that by 2050, more than half the global population will require corrective lenses.
And that is why the efforts by Twitter, YouTube, Facebook and other Big Media companies to silence opposing views is so dangerous.
What they’re doing is artificially manipulating what people see. But instead of making people see clearer, they’re keeping people from seeing what’s right in front of their eyes. And, since those people have never seen anything other than left-wing propaganda, they don’t realize that there’s something else they should see. In other words, they don’t know what they don’t know.
So what we’re left with is a lot of people who aren’t seeing things clearly. Not because there’s anything wrong with their eyes, but because they’re not given the opportunity to see other points of view. Which not only keeps them uninformed, but also keeps them from learning the skills to think for themselves. So, they remain ignorant.
And ignorance is hereditary.
The same people made ignorant by Big Media manipulation will have kids, and pass that ignorance along to them. Those kids will grow up and make even more ignorant kids. Before long, the world will be filled with ignorant people who can’t see that they’re ignorant because they’ve never seen anything else.
Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and the other platforms are censoring what people see because they don’t want those people to realize that there’s something else they should see. Because if someone can, just for a moment, see what someone else sees, that might be the moment that forever changes their point of view.
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