the 'blindness' of Love and Justice are very modern memes the blindness of Love was actually a medieval CRITIQUE of erotic love
(but despite this & despite Paul's physical blindness atm of truth, you're def right that in general it's more an Aryan trope)
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You know that in the OT, "blinding" a judge is an idiom for bribing him? I suspect malarial/parasitic blindness was more common
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yes, i think the consensus in history is that blindness is a very negative trait and extremely debilitating
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which is why i think that the modern image is probably an unhealthy 'inversion'
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yes, well... even in the ancient world, the metaphor gains its force from how shocking, how contrarian it is
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The gist of the aftermath of the healing of blind is "You think healing that guy was hard? You're in worse shape than he is"
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