An Allegorical Tale of Something or Other, July 17, 2010
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This review is from: Blindness (Movie Tie-In) (Paperback)
'Blindness' is about an epidemic of blindness. The blindness is contagious. Society begins to collapse, the blind are interned in concentration camps and an individual who somehow escapes blindness, goes with her husband to the concentration camp and attempts to take care of the blind. 'Blindness' is extremely well written but hollow at it's core. Clearly the tale is allegorical. Times today are times of trouble and only a few have the vision to to lead the world from darkness. How are the insightful ones to do this? Not by reading Nobel prize winning books. As to what is to be done today by the insightful reader 'Blindness' is completely unclear. No clues are given. 'Blindness is an allegorical tale which somehow fails to deliver an allegory as there is no underlying story which is unconcealed. The so called insightful ones of today are left blind as to what to do so as to address these times of trouble. Extremely disheartening is that high culture today as exmplified by Nobel Prizes for literature as well as popular culture today are hollow at the core. With both high culture and popular culture one is left blind. Apparrently the Powers That Be have decided to hollow out Western culture in preparation for the collapse of the West.