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320 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1975
"In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king." Well, it never turns out quite that way, as H.G. Wells knew he wrote his story "The Country of the Blind." A one-eyed man who happens upon a blind society does not become its king, for he cannot even function and is thought to be insane or sick. Because of the importance of category systems in a social group, it is not the outsider with a "better" system that becomes king, but the insider who most thoroughly masters the internal system. Should one of these "leaders" be removed to another group, his "native talent" evaporates, and probably becomes a severe handicap.