It was only a matter of time before this happened, and I'm surprised I didn't spend my life energy in developing this tech, given that I was one of the very few of us human beings whom was born kinda sorta blind but not really. It all depends at what point you ask my mother how I was born and what she saw. Once a woman has this kind of power of another, it's hard for her to be honest and tell the truth. At first she told me my eyes were completely white and thus I needed a cataract surgery. Then as she aged, the truth changed into me not having completely white eyes but just white spots. This is generally how people work, and that's okay, we aren't all nice and honest like some of us. But either way, I have low vision and so I was intrigued with eSight's new headset that promises to give those with vision loss or partially sighted more of what we all want - seeing the world, enjoying life. But there's a caveat.
If I did not get my surgery as a little toddler, I would have been completely blind and would have never seen a naked woman. That would have been terrible, believe you me. However, now that I have seen your faces, your hearts, and your souls and national policies in how you behave towards others, especially those with disabilities, I can tell you eSight will revolutionize the world, entirely. Here is the crux of the matter. It's really interesting, and has absolutely nothing to do with the tech whatsoever. In fact, restoring sight is not that difficult of a task, but this eSight will give people a really neat light to bounce off of and it won't be like any other.
Imagine for a moment you are disabled visually and can not see others. You would have no idea what they think of you at all other than their voice and maybe a touch here and there. When a person visually scoffs or frowns at your choice of t-shirt, a blind person, even me, has no idea what they are feeling. Then comes in the inbred hatred of honesty that you all in North America have mastered so well, even have gone to school for. The person after expressing an honest distaste, in the know we call this a tell, they try to hide it, usually by saying "That's a new shirt, do you like it?". Or even "I like your choice for this season". And so forth. It all says "I don't really like it stay away from me but I can't say it directly as we are in the same social circle". All of this is lost to the visually impaired like me and others, for we only know your words, such as you choose to let us hear. And since you all know we can't see your facial expression, you all know you can get away with it and you all do. And that's okay. If I was the invisible man, I know who's shower I'd get away with being in, right? But I'm not invisible, or am I? In fact, I'm a man with low vision who has never dated a single woman, that's how invisible we the blind are. And I am forty years of age. And no, it wasn't my choice to experience the best years of my life all alone, it was that of all the women whomever passed me by.
But eSight will change all this, and here is how it will blow all of your freaking minds. Now the blind people will not need you to throw us a freaking bone. Like any other dog in Canadian or the equally abusive American society we can go fetch it ourselves. eSight will revolutionize precisely that which you all built hard with your own bare non-disabled hands - the mistreatment of visually challenged individuals. Those with low vision, or blind people, will now no longer depend on the egotists, saddists, and self-centered social workers, even female ones, who claim to care but are just aimlessly collecting a pay cheque twiddling their thumbs. Those suffering form any visual issues with eSight will no longer depend on anyone ever again, and you all can be free from complaining that we are too demanding, that we blame the world for all of our problems, that we are different and eccentric. You all will be free, even the kindest trained psychotherapists, and disability theorists, you all will be freed from hating us for wasting your time dealing with our misfortunes, whether due to genetics or disease, and you will be able to, like the supermodels on TV, languish away on beaches and no longer in anger over why you had to all sit in tiny offices doing work that we could not do - filling out forms, reading things to us outloud, recording audio books for us, and yes, nobody will ever yell at us in meetings why we are demanding braille on washing machines! I can tell you that is a pleasure most of you sighted peeps have never had the sexual version of. We the visually stunted got to feel so much of the emotions that you all will never know, almost an entire alternate reality of colours like Bono sang in Solome, "colours we've never seen". That's the emotional spectrum that you the normal have yet to feel. Nobody ever raised hell for your lives when you wanted to know what button to push to spin dry your suit before your wedding, because hey, you all can just read it, right? But now with eSight, we all can be equals in that regard. We all don't have to waste our lives helping others whom we see as lesser than ourselves, right ladies and gentleman? You all can finally stop gripping at why you had to waste your youth dealing with imbeciles who can't even see the screen, and you can go and live your life that you deserve as a human being on Earth.
So eSight was mind blowing for me when I realized all of this. At first I saw all of you and your hatred as disrespect, but then I understood it. You all felt enslaved by our disabilities, because the governments forced you to help us when you really just wanted to go dancing. And that's normal and human. I wouldn't want to sit in an office grinding sand to make a set of glasses for me either if I could go hang out with Britney Spears right? But this is why capitalism and poverty is crucial, as it forces people with mental issues to help each other. Because normal people do not need to be told to clean up the streets of garbage, they don't need a financial incentive to help their neighbours. Normal people are kind and helpful and fight for what is right. This is why capitalism in North America and elsewhere, and even communism, is demonstrating all of your mental illnesses. I can't help any of you though, for I barely see the words I am writing, and yet I am not going to be jumping on the eSight train, but will tell all my "blind friends", because let's face it, you sighteds like to have a perfect heavenly circle without disabled people, so I will be telling all my "blind friends" about eSight. But just like this previous sentence has expressed, eSight will in fact not help anyone in the long run. The blind will see how ugly you all are, as it has a built-in X-Ray function. After my cataract surgery at the age of two, and this was back in the 80s or earlier, I also got X-Ray, but it was just an accident. Now whenever I look at even the most beautiful Toronto woman, I can see her very soul and heart beating and I can see that inside them are the ugliest demons anyone has yet to imagine. And when the partially sighted friends of mine try on the eSight tech, they, too, will see your ugly face expressions, your wars, your hatred for each other, they, too, will wish, like me, they were blind and never saw. Except by then it will have been too late, for they will know how long they were disrespected for. The first time they wear that t-shirt that you all hated but claimed to be okay with, and they see their facial expression, and they see their own when they dislike a thing, they will know that for decades you all hated them, us, and me. eSight will blow their mind, and then they will be in a puzzle. Now that they know how much you all hated us, do they keep the eSight and see your ugly selves with its built-in X-ray option, or do they return it and use their money for ice-cream. Because that, even Helen Keller appreciated, unlike all of your ugly opinions, societal norms, and disrespectful glances. I know at least for me, that I can precisely predict to a millisecond when a woman will turn her head just by seeing my weird, disfigured, ugly, confusing, discomforting, and demon-like eyes. These are your words ladies, and not mine. But alas, I must go now and actually read the eSight brochure, while the rest of you enjoy feminism's fruits of hatred - you all have boyfriends or girlfriends and I'm sitting alone, or maybe I'm not, I just can't see any of you near me. Maybe eSight will change that? Maybe the women will not look at a man with a black band around his head and think "What a disabled loser" like they do when I remove my sunglasses. Then again, if you're already so rude to a man like me, I can only imagine how you will bully eSighters.
Peace :)
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