Deep philosophical short stories

Philosophical Debate between "The Blind Touch the Elephant" and "The Painter with Paralysis for the Blind"

Zeng Guoxin

In daily life, there are two fables that are widely circulated and often attacked as derogatory: one is "the blind touch the elephant"! It means: a person keeps an elephant to let the blind know, because the blind are blind, so a person touches the elephant's stomach and calls it "like a wall"; Another man touched the elephant's leg and decided that it was "just a pillar"; The second is "blind people report paralysis to painters"! It means: an artist holds his own proud painting and invites the blind to enjoy it. Blind people are afraid of losing their "incompetent" face because they can't see, so they always find some pretentious words to belittle the "no" in the painting, which makes the painter laugh and cry. ...

The second fable, with profound philosophy, depicts the ugliness of "metaphysical" people in two daily lives, losing face! It can be said that it is not spicy, and it is also the ambition of those who "fully understand the situation" and "know the truth".

However, everything has two sides. The second part, aside from the absurd metaphysics of the mocked object, actually think carefully: the subjective motivation of the discerning person with an elephant to let the blind people "touch their legs" and "touch their stomachs" respectively, and the "painter" who shows pictures to the blind people for appreciation are the real sources of evil! What do you think: He clearly knows that the other party can't do it, but he deliberately "drives" or "takes" one-sided things to mislead others, making others make bigger mistakes and joking on the basis of his own incompetence. Isn't his intention despicable, vicious and extreme? This motive of deliberately making fun of others, humiliating and being happy is the object that should be expelled and attacked by human feelings!

Looking back at this phenomenon, some people, in order to achieve their own goals, not only show their own "one-sided" to the blind, but also deliberately cover and blind people's "eyes" with all human functions, and then use some "metaphysical" one-sided phenomena to cause their own understanding or lack of the overall truth, so that others or all people go astray, thus achieving their own "deception and falsehood." !

With the existence of intention and motivation, why can't those "blind people" who are fooled and deceived "embrace the painter"? I'm afraid the series of cold jokes drawn from this will not be the "blind man" who humiliates and satirizes, but the "wise man" who should be the initiator of this prank and gain fame!