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The Country of the Blind

99% Invisible

CHAPTER

The Importance of Passivity in Public Perception

You talk about that you want to cultivate an image of being an active protagonist in your own life. And it sounds like you admire that about Josh. Can you talk more about that idea and how, you know, popular depiction of blindness are generally unsatisfying or worse because they involve a nonactive protagonist? Yeah. I think what you're talking about in terms of public perception is not only the dominant one, it's almost the only one that most people see, I think.

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