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The Political Contribution of Blindness
A vertical reflection on sight and on its absence leads us directly into the very core of our Western culture—more precisely, into the consumerist, capitalist, liberal system in which we live. We dwell daily in the image: we are drawn/attracted into it, swallowed, intoxicated, made dependent, devitalized within a process of consumption/consumerism that is based above all on appearance, on what shows itself, on what, by dazzling, induces and dictates the need for a visible, striking recognizability.
It is within the image that a self-referential, narcissistic dynamic is generated, one that excludes any meaning of complementarity in relationships, as well as any necessity of inner depth. It denies the possibility of conceiving and practicing the reverse side of the standardized canon.
The experience of blindness shatters, in an instant, the superficiality of the visible; it enters and inhabits the invisibility of darkness, forcibly within a process opposite to the one we, the sighted, are accustomed to live—even mentally.
John Martin Hull recounts all this, slowly leading us to reconsider our social and cultural parameters. He magnificently opens up the body of voice and sound, awakening us sensorially and spiritually to the concentration of silence and listening, to a trusting slowness, to an inner resurrection drawing strength from the deep sacredness that dwells within us. He shares events from his personal story, folds of his lived experience, mortifications, depressions from which he has reemerged, with energy and clarity.
He conjugates the verb “to love” in a Christian sense, stripped bare and open to dialogue.
All of his work in this book is born and unfolds within the womb of the Holy Scriptures. It radiates into every corner of our daily life, into every existential and social connection, as well as the spiritual one.
His thought, in every word, effectively offers the practicable foundations toward the correction of a polis that still has much to learn for a coexistence of equal rights, non-discrimination, and growth that is at once individual and communal.
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