Our Country Needs Lasik
Nov 9, 2008 Observations
When people are young their eyes are strong and flexible. They stretch to see the world world as it is. But as people grow older, their eyeballs get tired and inflexible. Good vision diminishes and we need help to see clearly.
I would like to propose that this same thing happens to our minds. As minds get older, they get tired and inflexible. They can’t see the world clearly. This causes people to start making bad decisions.
Now it seems that this is happening to our country. Our national and political short-sightedness has gotten us into trouble. We are massively in debt as the biggest generation in history slides into retirement. We are in wars where we shouldn’t be. We buy expensive houses that we don’t need. We drive cars that make ruin the environment and force us to have a national interest in the Persian Gulf.
Thinking requires flexibility because the outcome of our thought sometimes forces us to change our minds.
We need to remain flexible and capable of change. We need to let go of our fear. We need lasik surgery, on a personal level and a national level
November 11th, 2008 at 12:23 am
I agree, in theory.
But, uh, um, lasik won’t fix the decreased elasticity of the lens that is presbyopia. Lasik could be used to give you monovision (each eye permanently carved to focus at a different distance, one near & one far …)
What we need is something along the lines of accommodative interocular lenses implants. So I guess the analogy there would be brain transplants… lol
But can we still play with the left-over lasers?
November 11th, 2008 at 4:55 pm
I guess that blows my analogy.I’ll have to keep searching for the perfect metaphor.