There was a one-eyed man who liked to roam the creek, hill, mountain and plain, he would walk and walk, he would go and walk… One day, he saw a village in the far distance, and he approached the village with strange roads, strange houses, strange people…
When he entered the village, he understood the issue, this was the village of the blind, women, men, children, in short, everyone's eyes were tightly closed.
The wandering man decided to live here: At least I have one eye, he says, in the land of the blind, squints become kings, they say, I will lead them and live. Blind people do not have eyes, but their hands, ears and noses are very sensitive, they have their own order.
The man was looking at their bewilderment, their walking and talking was actually different… One day, one of the blind people stole the other blind person's property, only the one-eyed man saw it, and he shouted:
– So-and-so stole his property.
Blind:
How do you know that it is not heard from so far away, they said.
– I did not hear, I saw, I have eyes, I see.
Blind people don't know anything about eyes or seeing, and they have long forgotten this feeling over the years.
– What does it mean to see?
- Of course I understand...
– We do not believe, we will test you…
They took the man and planted him in a distant place, they knew by experience that nothing could be heard from that distance.
“Tell me, what are we doing now?” they said. The man told…
– You are sitting, talking, this one got up, this one moved his hand, the other one was shaking his leg, then the blind people entered a house and shouted:
- Tell me…
– You went in, I can't see… What it means to go in because the blind don't know:
– So what if we went inside, he noticed fifty centimeters, tell me, they said…
- I don't see a wall in between.
Blind:
– You throw, they said, it just happened to be a coincidence,
- Come out and I'll tell you.
– What happens when you hear it from such a distance, inside or outside…
– I do not hear, I see, said the man
They said, "Nothing like that, you have a defect, you are ridiculous, you are saying strange things, we will have you examined by the doctor...
…
They took the man by the collar and took him to the village doctor, the doctor was blind of course...
He started to feel the man with his hands, and while he was running his fingers on the man's face:
“I found it,” he said. the disorder is here…. The doctor meant the man's open eye and said:
– That's why he's bullshit, he says, I'll take care of it now, I'll fix it… The wanderer who tried to become a king in the land of the blind barely escaped from there.
Blind people cannot understand those who see, they think they are ridiculous and they try to take their eyes out to make him look like themselves.
H.G. Wells
