It is unsurprising, then, that he might want to draw upon the kind of "colour-blind" ideas that let white people get away with ignoring what happens to others.
Leng presents three possible interpretations for this couplet: "another play on the blind seer idea"; or Harrison's rejection of the concept espoused in his 1968 Beatles composition "The Inner Light", "that knowledge is the key to enlightenment"; or, like his 1975 rebuttal to detractors such as Rolling Stone, "This Guitar (Can't Keep from Crying)", a "dig at smartass rock journalists".
Molyneux was probably inspired by Locke's exposition of the ideas of persons born blind and the ideas which can be acquired by means of both sight and touch.
I had done it blind, with no idea what would happen in that issue – yet almost all of these elements appeared, without Neil having seen the cover.
"They were so intent on extending their monopoly out for five years and ultimately blind to the idea" that government officials would turn it down, Mr. Sherman said.
Trump's accusers have tellingly similar stories: he kissed them, he groped them, he leered at them, he seemed blind to the idea of mutual interest.
Popular spokespeople like Ms. Palin routinely drop words like "tyranny" and "socialism" when describing the president and his allies, as if blind to the idea that Americans legitimately faced with either enemy would almost certainly take up arms.
Remnick is not blind to the idea that bringing The New Yorker to a TV format will expose it to a new, probably younger, audience and thus, potentially, new readers, too.
It was a path I chose out of blind panic, the idea that I needed a career – I'd never advise anyone to choose a postgraduate course because of that".
Although each blind man's idea was based on a partial truth, they all missed the composite view of the animal.
