Comments on: Cultural Optometry Lesson

By: Merzmensch aka kosmopol

Merzmensch aka kosmopol — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:43:51 +0000

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.

By: mike

mike — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:42:55 +0000

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

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By: Nate

Nate — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:17:26 +0000

thirded.

By: Nathan Tyree

Nathan Tyree — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:59:14 +0000

I am with you. Glasses for me.

By: cmr

cmr — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:24:50 +0000

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.