Feeling an Elephant

The parable of the blind men and the elephant tells us something about the partiality of knowledge; that only having access to local information does not give us the big picture. It also suggests that our sense of touch (feeling) is individual and separate, whilst our visual sense is communal. So it is that our feelings, metaphorically mapped from our sense of touch, and the emotional knowledge that these feelings represent, separates us. Our visual sense, and the objectified knowledge it gives character to, brings us together. It is also noteworthy that the men in the story are blind, and therefore would have to take the reality of the big picture on faith.

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