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Blindness In John Wolfe's Essay Eating

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After finishing reading Wolfe’s essay, I found some parts of his essay are tough to understand, but several ideas this essay introduces are interesting. He states that blindness could be a unique form of abled-ness. People with disability in visual system ironically have more access to the truth, while on the other hand, normal people with intact eyes are blind. His interpretation of normality as inferiority really intrigues me. From my understanding, the weakness and blindness that normal people possess are actually inside of humanity. People born with the tendency of self-deception and the trait of laziness, so that’s why “most of us would simply rather not be reminded of exactly what meat is or what it takes to bring it to our plates.”(Eating
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