Blind Total darkness can take over one's sight, leaving the individual barely able to form cognitive images and experiencing the inevitable dependence on the words of others, thus allowing physical blindness to paralyze even the people more independent individuals. The phenomenon of social blindness can describe those who rely not on their own understanding, but on that of those around them, which is an all-too-common trend in the modern world. In “Selections from Losing Matt Shepard: Life and Politics in the Aftermath of Anti-Gay Murder,” transcribed by Beth Loffreda, the mass media influenced the spread of the truth behind an incident and blindly led the majority of the United States population to believe various aspects of Matt Shepard's murder created by the media. The uncontrolled spread of information about the murder was possible only with the help of today's largest means of communication, the Internet. In "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" The author, Nicholas Carr, explained how modern individuals no longer check the validity or exposition of a source, but "skim" the facts and important aspects of what they are reading. Whether the article is false or valid has little to no effect on the reader's decision-making process, since all they are trying to get from the text is information... right or wrong. However, with this more efficient and immediate form of information extraction, there is a tangible loss of deep reading and the ability to “see.” In "The Mind's Eye: What the Blind See" the author, Oliver Sacks, gave some accounts of individuals who were blind in the ordinary meaning of the word who could "see" more than most individuals with a perfectly fine optical mechanism. working. Today's society counts...... middle of paper......ess, a slow, almost prehensile attention, a sensual, intimate being, one with the world that sight, with its fast quality , darting, easy, continually distracts us from” (Sacchi 313). It has been stated that throughout life one maintains a malleable brain capable of adapting to multiple situations, including in this case blindness. At the onset of blindness, the brain begins to rewire itself by expanding into areas of optical stimulation, and the brain manipulates them to help expand the other senses. The rewiring of the brain explains why blind people are known as “whole-body seers,” as their body senses have matured more than normal in the absence of visual stimulation. As "whole-body seers," blind people say they are sensitive to inflections in the tone of others' voices that show signs of emotions not present to the common eye.