An Argument For A Blinkered View (Of Reality)

Consider Democracy Now!'s Amy Goodman. Consider how you feel after having watched (or listened) to an episode of Democracy Now! For that matter, consider how you feel after having watched Fox news. Now, in each case, that is an hour of your life--of your own very life--given to feeling enraged, disempowered, miserable. And what came of it? Nothing. Nothing at all. In some respects, a blinkered view of reality is to be preferred to eyes wide open for the reason that it the semi-darkness at least you can move, if only in the direction of apparent goods, at least it is motion. And in that is to be found some small measure of self-esteem and happiness and power.