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Blind people quarantined in a mental asylum, attacking each other, soiling themselves, trading sex for food. For Marc Maurer, who’s blind, such a scenario _ as shown in the movie “Blindness” _ is not a clever allegory for a breakdown in society.
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This Thursday, Sept. 27, 2007 picture shows President of the National Center for the Blind Marc Maurer in his office in Baltimore. Blind people quarantined in a mental asylum, attacking each other, soiling themselves, trading sex for food. For Maurer,...
