November 20th, 2009 / 1:23 am
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Cultural Optometry Lesson

glasses

I hate eyewear ads where models who don’t need glasses wear glasses — just seems so fake, and makes me resent the models more for having better genes than me. (Would you have a leg amputee model shoes? — I think not.) I also get annoyed at legally-blind intellectuals who feel they are above Lasik surgery, or think that contacts are a cosmetic option. Chomsky said “From the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.” I think what he meant was: people are made to feel like they need to buy stuff to feel better. No conspiracy Noam, it’s called a shopping mall. Speaking of feeling better, I think I would feel better if Noam bought new glasses, maybe even the more expensive “featherweight” lenses. In short, glasses ought to be real, but not too thick. Everyone is either shallow or too deep; just give me a kiddie pool to drown in. Thank you for accepting the truth, and for being able to see this.

11 Comments

  1. cmr

      Contacts have always freaked me out. I think it was having to watch my mom, as a little kid, fish one out of her eye that slid down below where it should have been. Twenty years later, I still get nauseous just thinking about it. That said, if my own finger isn’t going anywhere near my eye, either is some doctor with a laser beam.

  2. cmr

      Contacts have always freaked me out. I think it was having to watch my mom, as a little kid, fish one out of her eye that slid down below where it should have been. Twenty years later, I still get nauseous just thinking about it. That said, if my own finger isn’t going anywhere near my eye, either is some doctor with a laser beam.

  3. Nathan Tyree

      I am with you. Glasses for me.

  4. Nathan Tyree

      I am with you. Glasses for me.

  5. Nate

      thirded.

  6. Nate

      thirded.

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  8. mike

      fourth’d. i will never stop wearing glasses for these reasons.

  9. mike

      fourth’d. i will never stop wearing glasses for these reasons.

  10. Merzmensch aka kosmopol

      Oh yes, me too, count me as fifith.
      I think, contacts are unthinkable because of:
      1) to fumble in my own eyes is disgusting and equivocal
      2) it’s kinda tokenistic lie – you pretend to have good eyes, but these are contacts helping you not to bump in the next tree
      3) glasses ar not only chic. They are meta-textual. You can everytime take them out. You can see the real world and compare it to Matix visualisation through the glasses lense. If you’re in contacts, you are already deep in this simulacrum of the clear sight.

  11. Merzmensch aka kosmopol

      Oh yes, me too, count me as fifith.
      I think, contacts are unthinkable because of:
      1) to fumble in my own eyes is disgusting and equivocal
      2) it’s kinda tokenistic lie – you pretend to have good eyes, but these are contacts helping you not to bump in the next tree
      3) glasses ar not only chic. They are meta-textual. You can everytime take them out. You can see the real world and compare it to Matix visualisation through the glasses lense. If you’re in contacts, you are already deep in this simulacrum of the clear sight.