The Blind Convention: An Allegory

The Blind Convention An Allegorical Tale By Anthony J. Fejfar, B.A., J.D., Esq., Coif © Copyright 2007 by Anthony J. Fejfar The Blind Person’s Association (BPA) was holding its 10th Annual Meeting at the Hilton Hotel, in Washington, D.C. The BPA had become very politically active, of late, having studied modern psychiatry, logical positivism, and the postmodern linguistics of Derrida and Foucoult. The President of the BPA took the podium and began his speech. “My friends, we are finally beginning to understand how we the Blind have been hoodwinked. After careful consideration of postmodern sources, it is clear that the supposed visual world of “normal” Americans is a hallucination.

There is no such thing as sight, only darkness.”

The 10,000 BPA members in the audience chcered. The President continued, “We know that these people are hallucinating because we know from our very own sense experience that visual sight is impossible. We are the moral majority, we are the normal. We represent Conventional Morality.

We must put

an end to the hegemony of the psuedo visualists in society. We must do everything we can to exterminate the visualists and put them on psychiatric wards. The visualists are mentally ill with their hallucinations of a sighted world. We must put an end to their fascism and bigotry. We will go forth from this meeting and convince the visualists that they must take non-violence vows and that they must accept us on the basis of diversity, and then we will do everything we can to get them to commit suicide, or if necessary,

exterminate them. We cannot afford to keep them in psychiatric wards forever.” The Blind crowd cheered. Soon the Blind returned to their home communities and began to persecute the visuals. It took awhile, but they were determined to win, and then, the lights went out for humanity.