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Cat and Jag, your secret's safe with me. Obviously we are all prisoners of the dominent paradigm of our society and our time. It can be extremely difficult to "think outside the box," especially if your particular box is all nice and comfy and lined with down feathers. It takes great imagination and courage to see clearly when your society has brought you up with blinders on from the moment of birth on. Even if you take the blinders off, your eyes may have lost the ability to detect things in their peripheral field of vision.

A democracy of visually impaired people is far worse than a dictatorship of those with clear vision. At least in the latter case, the people can see that there is a problem and act to overthrow the dictatorship. In the former case, the members of the democracy remain imprisoned because they cannot even see the bars of their cage.