Hi Dark, Oh, don't get me started. I hate the so called blind privileged experience argument. That's a load of crap circulated by people who have never been sighted, who think their experience is superior to everyone else, and argue essentially from ignorance. Especially, when the subject at hand such as music has nothing to do with being blind or sighted in the first place.
For example, a few years ago there was a blind Canadian jazz and blues-rock musician named Jeff Healey. He was an exceptionally good guitar player, and loved to show off his talent by playing the guitar flat on his lap. I can't argue with his skill as a guitarist, since I do admire his skills myself, but many people jumped to that stereotypical conclusion that because he was blind that made him somehow superior to sighted musicians. Of course, the fact he was blind had absolutely nothing to do with it. It all came down to a lot of time and practice to pull off feats like that. There have been a number of extremely talented sighted guitar players that are as good as if not better than Jeff Healey. People like Eddy Van Halen, Jimmi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Richard Van Zant from Linard Skinard, to name just a few have made a name for themselves as world renown guitarists. The point here is that being a very exceptional guitar player doesn't have anything to do with being blind. It all comes down to skill and talent. Anyway, getting back on topic here you are right. There are a number of experiences where blindness doesn't effect it one way or another. Sometimes a blind person has to do things differently, but can essentially have the same experience as his/her sighted friends and family. Cheers! On 7/25/12, dark <d...@xgam.org> wrote: > Hi Tom. > > both true, however one thing I want to avoid n any discussion with > disability and effort is the idea of privelidged experience, that there is a > > "blind experience" of the world whicch nobody else can understand or > participate in, even when that experience has nothing to do with blindness. > > i have for instance read papers by peoplke who claime that blind people, > (and by their implication All! blind people), have an understanding and > experience of music beyond everyone else. To me, this is exclusivist > rubbish, sinse I've met some pretty tone deaf blind people and some amazing > > sighted musicians,, and just as we must acknolidge that sighted people can! > > play audio games, it is equally true that there are experiences which > blindness doesn't affect. > > perhaps the example of text games was a bad one because of cost, but music, > > playing audio games, communicating in an auditory way, learning massage, > would probably be different. > > Beware the grue! > > Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
