BlindTotal darkness can take over sight, leaving the individual barely able to form cognitive images and experiencing the inevitable dependence on the words of others, thus allowing to physical blindness to paralyze even the most independent. individuals. The phenomenon of social blindness can describe a person who relies not on their own understanding, but rather on that of those around them, which is an all too common trend in the modern world. In “Selections from Losing Matt Shepard: Life and Politics in the Aftermath of Anti-Gay Murder,” transcribed by Beth Loffreda, mass media influenced the dissemination of the truth behind an incident and blindly led the majority of the population into United States to believe various aspects of the Matt Shepard murder that were created by the media. The unlimited dissemination of information about the murder was only possible with the help of today's largest media, the Internet. In “Is Google making us stupid?” » The author, Nicholas Carr, explained how modern individuals no longer check the validity or exposition of a source, but “Power Browse” for facts and important aspects of what they read. Whether the article is false or valid has little or no effect on the reader's decision-making, because all they are looking to get from the text is information...good or false. Yet with this more efficient and immediate form of information extraction, there is a tangible loss of close reading and the ability to “See.” In "The Mind's Eye: What the Blind See", the author, Oliver Sacks, gave some accounts of individuals who are blind in the common sense of the term, capable of "seeing" more than most gifted individuals. of a fully functional optical mechanism. Today's society contains...... middle of paper ......ess, a slow, almost prehensile attention, a sensual and intimate being in harmony with the world as sight, with its quality quick, quick and easy, continually distracts us” (Sacks 313). It has been stated that throughout life, we maintain a malleable brain, capable of adapting to multiple situations, in this case blindness. At the onset of blindness, the brain begins to rewire itself by expanding into areas of optical stimulation and manipulates them to facilitate the expansion of other senses. Rewiring the brain explains why blind people are known as "whole-body sighted people," because their body's senses have matured more than normal in the absence of visual stimulation. As “whole-body sighted people,” blind people claim to be sensitive to inflections in the voices of others that show signs of emotions not present to the ordinary eye..