{"id":10111,"date":"2020-09-08T16:12:18","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T23:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=10111"},"modified":"2020-09-08T16:08:32","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T23:08:32","slug":"we-are-easy-prey-propositions-three-and-seven-by-richard-mitchell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/10111\/we-are-easy-prey-propositions-three-and-seven-by-richard-mitchell\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWe are easy prey\u201d \u2013 Propositions Three and Seven<\/i> by Richard Mitchell"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Propositions Three and Seven<\/i> from The Graves of Academe<\/i><\/a> by Richard Mitchell<\/p>\n

 
In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is, as we all know, king. And across the way, in the country of the witless, the half-wit is king. And why not? It’s only natural, and considering the circumstances, not really a bad system. We do the best we can.<\/p>\n

But it is a system with some unhappy consequences. The one-eyed man knows that he could never be king in the land of the two-eyed, and the half-wit knows that he would be small potatoes indeed in a land where most people had all or most of their wits about them. These rulers, therefore, will be inordinately selective about their social programs, which will be designed not only to protect against the rise of the witful and the sighted, but, just as important, to ensure a never-failing supply of the witless and utterly blind. Even to the half-wit and the one-eyed man, it is clear that other half-wits and one-eyed men are potential competitors and supplanters, and they invert the ancient tale in which an anxious tyrant kept watch against a one-sandaled stranger by keeping watch against wanderers with both eyes and operating minds. Uneasy lies the head.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, most people are born with two eyes and even the propensity to think. If nothing is done about this, chaos, obviously, threatens the land. Even worse, unemployment threatens the one-eyed man and the half-wit. However, since they do in fact rule, those potentates have not much to fear, for they can command the construction and perpetuation of a state-supported and legally enforced system for the early detection and obliteration of antisocial traits, and thus arrange that witfulness and 20-20 vision will trouble the land as little as possible. The system is called \u201ceducation.\u201c<\/p>\n

Such is our case. Nor should that surprise anyone. Like living creatures, institutions intend primarily to live and do whatever else they do only to that end. Unlike some living creatures, however, who do in fact occasionally decide that there is something even more to be prized than their own survival, Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Propositions Three and Seven from The Graves of Academe by Richard Mitchell  In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is, as we all know, king. And across the way, in the country of the witless, the half-wit is king. And why not? 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