alt Hacker NewsReminds me of The Country of the Blind by HG Wells.
It’s about a guy who finds his way into a valley in a mountain range where everyone has been blind for generations. At first he thinks that he’ll have “a superpower“ because he’s sighted. Instead the people of the valley view his sight as an illness.
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UltraSane • yesterday at 6:19 AM
It WOULD have been a superpower if he hadn't told anyone he could see.
That think him mentally ill because they do not believe he can actually see and think him deluded.
If he had kept quiet in the face of scepticism he would have had a huge advantage.
I see it as a story about people's unwillingness to believe in something that is outside their own experience and that of their society.