Communities such as Enfield have been let down repeatedly over the past three decades by Westminster myopia and by big businesses sucking cash out of their areas and offering only sops of community social responsibility in return.
Nobby Stiles, the small wing-half whose dentures, myopia and aggression combined to make him one or the personalities of the 1966 World Cup, arrived long after Munich, but Busby's reaction to the disaster is crucial to Stiles's View of him.
Their myopia is especially startling in light of their recent successes in doing exactly what the original mission of conservative alternative media seemed to be: to draw attention to stories that the "mainstream media" would otherwise ignore.
Artistically, however, it pales beside the sly wit and beauty of Hu Wei's The Butter Lamp, in which a photographer's portraiture of Tibetan villagers gives way to a larger statement on cultural myopia.
If we critics got it wrong, it wasn't just because of our collective myopia.
Some on the left think they have discovered the great democratic potential of populism : it can correct the myopia of a self-enclosed political class; it expresses a heartfelt demand for more popular participation.
Choosing to make a priority of hosting the World Cup rather than creating a pool of talent that could win it was another act of profound myopia.
The trick, as Prakash Shimpi, a finance wizard at Swiss Re, has realised, is to overcome the myopia that stops finance directors seeing beyond their balance sheets.
The reasons include the myopia of Russian foreign policy, the limits of western influence in this benighted corner of Europe and, most of all, Alyaksandr Lukashenka, Belarus's ruthless president.There is only one president in Belarus, a landlocked, ex-Soviet country of 10m people, lying between Russia and the expanded European Union.
That said, taking a wider view of women's earning potential shows the myopia of a month-by-month assessment of income versus expenditures.
They can bail themselves out.Jim Jacobs Crownsville, MarylandSIR – Back in 2002 you forecast "that banks, rating agencies, insurers and even regulators may fall victim to a collective myopia that blinds them to the true risks" of packaging and distributing what were then new types of financial vehicles ("Bombe surprise", February 9th 2002).
