Having Sight but No Vision

This episode takes a Helen Keller quote as its starting point — "The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision" — and sits with what that distinction actually means.It looks at how easy it is to narrow without noticing: the same people, the same sources, the same angles until your own perspective quietly starts to feel like common sense. Social media gets a particular mention as a place where that narrowing happens almost invisibly.There's also a reflection on a recent trip to New Zealand — landing at an unfamiliar airport, hearing announcements in an unknown language, feeling how things that seemed obvious at home simply aren't elsewhere. The observation that travel doesn't just expand what your eyes take in, but shifts how you think about your own way of seeing.The episode closes with a question that the quote prompted: what am I failing to see right now? The certainties, the people assumed to be irrelevant, the futures too uncomfortable to face.A quiet look at the difference between looking and actually seeing — and why it might be worth the discomfort of the wider view.