I was thinking-off the other day about how much of a bore life would be if I suddenly couldn't hear anymore. Than I tried answering the age-old question about which I'd prefer; deafness or blindness. I have no fucking clue. Then I of course thought about Helen Keller and her deafblindedness. Of course it would seem so much worse if you had been able to see and hear before your onset of deafblindedness because then you'd really know what you're missing out on.
Then I thought about the case of the girl who cannot feel pain; or even more to the point; the girl who cannot feel. Now imagine if you were deaf, blind, and the real kicker is that you also could not feel. Would you even be aware of your own existence?
What in the everliving fuck would that be like?! What would go on in one's mind? Would you have a personality? Do you pretty much not even exist in the Descartian point of view? Now I'm sure there's still got to be some sort of shit going on in your head, but what kind of shit? If you've never had a memory of pain, what would nothingness feel like? What sorts of things would fill up your mind as you sit in the numbing darkness?
This is really bothering me but I wouldn't go too far as to say they are suffering. Is being unaware of your surroundings really beautiful in that it's blissful? But another perspective outside of that person's is needed in order to apply the word 'blissful' and 'beautiful' to a state such as that because those terms are comparitive terms that the other person has no knowledge of. I see a lot of parallels with this mindfuck and what I wrote about regarding the idea of a perfect place such as Heaven.
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