why would you want Blind Justice? you want Justice to be as clear-sighted as possible our iconology is trash tbh
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Replying to @Peter_OTool
It's 15th c., not v e r y modern: and physical blindness opening deeper insight is an archaic trope indeed
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Replying to @QuasLacrimas
i am prepared to wager that, given access to the warburg library, i could demonstrate the perverseness of this modern figure
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Replying to @Peter_OTool
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@QuasLacrimas reminder that even jesus RESTORED SIGHT to the blind i think even heyschasts want 'insight' with their PHYSICAL eyes1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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Replying to @Peter_OTool
(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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Replying to @QuasLacrimas @Peter_OTool
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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Replying to @QuasLacrimas
yes, i think the consensus in history is that blindness is a very negative trait and extremely debilitating
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Replying to @Peter_OTool @QuasLacrimas
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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Replying to @QuasLacrimas @Peter_OTool
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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