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The Emissary Who Forgot to Bow: Wells Versus Enlightenment Reason
The text, written by philosopher Bry Willis, presents a critical overview of the Enlightenment’s foundational belief in universal reason through a comparative analysis of three key figures and concepts. It uses the proverb “In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king,” attributed to Erasmus, as a starting point to represent the Enlightenment’s presumption that superior knowledge confers automatic sovereignty. The author then argues that H.G. Wells’s short story, The Country of the Blind, serves as a literary act of “vandalism” that destroys this notion, showing that advantage is…
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