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Introduction
The chosen article “Americans Losing Sight of Eye Health” has appeared in The
Synopsis
In this age of increasing materialistic attitudes most of us aren’t able to find time for
proper eating, spare alone a regular routine medical checkup. The article focuses on an
average American’s negligence towards the health of his/her eyes. The recent survey by
American Optometric Association (AOA) has revealed that Americans are more worried
about losing vision then they are worried for their memory, ability to walk or their hairs. But
still, revoltingly enough, 15% of people who are not using any corrective lens have never
been to an eye doctor in their whole life. Especially the younger generation and people under
55 years of age normally do not give a thought to visit an eye doctor, until and unless it is
inevitable. The author has also tried to highlight some of the major concerns of people like
their inability to live independently once they loses their eyesight and inability to drive or
read. The article has also presented some amazing facts about detection of diseases (Diabetes,
hypertension and even cancer, tumor and sclerosis to name a few) by means of an ordinary
Philosophically the article under discussion has touched many issues and notions
which have become a second nature of our society. The most obvious of them are the
The article provides clear indications of increasing public inclination towards the
physicality of everything. The article provides an obscene but candid picture of the present
materialistic thought patterns of us and our society as a whole. The current trend of spending
every single minute of one’s life in this frenzied rat race for money and power is seriously
stretching the already thin social fabric, particularly in urban centers where the
disengagement and departure of the middle-class from cities has reduced the number of
individuals who care for others along with caring for their own self.
The other concept which is denied in the article is the pragmatic nature of knowledge.
The article claims that most of the people know that they have some kind of problem with
their eyesight but they continually keep on ignoring the problem until it starts hampering their
daily routine. The pragmatic nature of knowledge expects from an individual complete
adherence to the defined and tested procedures and a kind of pro-active approach towards the
problems even before their symptoms have started to show up. But the picture this article has
Personally, I strongly agree with the views of Dr. James Kirchner, that every
individual ought to have a complete eye checkup at least every two years and for people
using corrective lenses and other aids the need is even more. I’ve witnessed many incidents
where a person’s negligence or lethargy has cost him his eyes. One of my cousins who was
using contact lenses for two years has managed to lose one eye partially just because she
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underestimated her problems as a need for a different lens recommendation and didn’t visited
her ophthalmologist for two years. The same thing can happen to those 26% Americans who
also haven’t seen their opticians or oculists lately. Putting things on back burner and letting it
simmer until it is too late has become our national motto of late.
I strongly recommend all the readers to find this article in the back issues and read it