We are all creatures of Assumptions

About 30-40% of the Brain is devoted to Vision. That is a huge portion of the Brain just for Vision. You see vision is important. With it we have all these things in the world. I doubt there would have been any invention in the world without the ability to see. Do you agree?

But vision is deceptive. Vision creates crime. Vision creates prejudices. Think for a moment; would there be racism if we all were not able to see? Would there be fashion if we all were not able to see? There would be no difference between Madam Jolie over yonder and Joyce Atieno, the local girl in my village. Infact without clothes, there might be no hollywood.

Next to medicine, I consider clothes to be the greatest invention of all time. CLOTHES MAKES ALL THE DIFFERENCE. IT CREATES ALL THE DIFFERENCE. It ain't planes or cars or laundry machine or ipod but the attire to cover you for without it many things fail to make sense or value. You simply cannot go beyond looking at anything else a naked person may be carrying, but the naked man himself. Why?

If man could not come up with a way of covering himself first, it is unlikely he would be able to come up with or even desire to come up with say a microchip. What for? Crocs need no radio or palmtop but they sure have a blast.

Without clothes we are like wild animals in maasai mara. We live to find food and eat it, to procreate and procreate more. After all even with all our sophistication, life still is as basic as eating, (whatever it is we eat), sleeping, (wherever it is we sleep), sexing, (whoever it is you do it with). The act is basic common to us and animals.

About assumptions: Look we assume the existence of many things which a closer reflection would prove does not exist. Provided, for example that we believe that God exists, there is a good reason to suppose that God has grandparents. The same goes for belief in dragons, devil and ghosts. I mean why not! After all no one has seen him. Forget about Moses, he saw nothing.

Magicians do what they do because they play on our assumptions. They can float in the air because, (hold on Mr Isaac Newton), there probably ain't nothing called gravitational pull. When things fall they just fall! When they float it is because they are capable of floating! The assumption, for example is that we see nothing when we close our eyes. Really! I see darkness. The assumption is that our eyes do not move when we fix our gaze on something. You think so? Try it again.

But the amazing thing is WE DO NOT REFLECT, SERIOUSLY, ON THE ASSUMPTIONS WE GROW UP WITH. That is why we have prejudices on basis of say religion, sex, race, education et al. We relate with people on the basis of mindsets we have and in which we are enslaved.

While It is important that we are able to see, it is also important that we wee things in their proper perspective.