Civil Blindness

Civil blindness is the absence or complete inability to apply knowledge, skills and abilities in everyday life in real conditions created in society. This concept corresponds to the concept of practical blindness, which is characterized by a complete or partial lack of skill to perform socio-economic and cultural functions in society under given conditions. For example, this could include a student who graduated from a university with a degree in psychology, but does not know where he can work, how much he needs to work to achieve his level of well-being, because he has never tried to solve these issues on his own. Thus, civil blindness is characterized by the absence of the most important skill - to apply acquired knowledge and skills in practice.

If we compare civil blindness with visual blindness, then the first is similar to the fact that a person left the house and forgot his keys. It cannot be said that he needs exactly these keys to the neighbor’s house across the street. He urgently needs the skill to find them and use them in various life situations. Lack of skill explains ignorance, lack of experience of use - lack of information about the possibility of applying knowledge and skills in everyday conditions, in the real world. Both terms have a specific object to which they are applied in society. A blind person is a person or animal completely deprived of one of the components of health - vision. Completely blind people are deprived of the ability to perceive visual information, the world around them is inaccessible to them, so their participation in the life of society is difficult. And vice versa, the same person, having learned to turn on the light in the room, from a useless simpleton becomes a person, and from someone who is deprived of the right to read a book, he can turn into the same bookish person. In one case, initial blindness shows the possible boundaries of a living being’s exploration of the world. In another, the success of the second person who learned to see demonstrates the broad capabilities of human nature.