The privileged narrator’s blindness resides in his own point of view.
Evidence
This essential fluidity of our boundaries further implies that we also know our boundaries as such—first the individual and then in general. For only whoever stands outside his boundary in some sense knows that he stands within it, that is, knows it as a boundary. Kaspar Hauser did not know that he was in prison until he came into the open and could see the walls from without. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 787 (
#corroborates, via linked claim)
Violence was not the way to vision. Guns wouldn’t work for this. It had to be grown into, inhabited the way the wood does trees. — Lynch, Thomas, The undertaking-life studies from the…, 437 (
#corroborates, via linked claim)
Categorization
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
- XREF: connects to: Perspective can come at the cost of one’s life and vision. — Lynch, Thomas, The undertaking-life studies from the…, 437; Intense present-mindedness makes advanced societies blind to their self-inflicted misfortunes.; Self-knowledge of one’s limits requires a vantage point outside them — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 787
Related
- Self-knowledge of one’s limits requires a vantage point outside them (similarity 0.84)
- One can only recognize a boundary by stepping outside of it (similarity 0.83)
- One’s class origins enable unique insight while also limiting what the mind can see (similarity 0.81)
- The self discovers itself only in situation and must alone sustain all values (similarity 0.80)
- The stranger’s freedom from commitments enables objective evaluation (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- Self-knowledge of one’s limits requires a vantage point outside them
#corroborates(0.75) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 787 - Perspective can come at the cost of one’s life and vision.
#corroborates(0.60) — Lynch, Thomas, The undertaking-life studies from the…, 437 - Intense present-mindedness makes advanced societies blind to their self-inflicted misfortunes.
#corroborates(0.50)