you've NEVER seen a blowup doll?
Maybe I have, maybe I haven't; I really don't know.
I've seen many phenomenons in my life, but I'd be damned if I knew what they were.
If one has ever attended one of these workplace "diversity" sessions, one of the most-frequently quoted statistics is that people learn 80% of what they know, from hearing. What they learn from what they see, for example, isn't anything compared with what they learn from what they hear.
I dunno how they arrived at their statistic, but it sounds reasonable to me.
I suspect this is what gave me entry into aspects of the socialist paradises of the workers and peasants with free medical care for all, that are generally kept hidden from westerners.
It helped of course that unlike the few other westerners there, I hung with the workers and peasants rather than the elites.
But essentially, I was given entry to numerous hospitals, half a dozen prisons, too many jails to count, a couple of crematoriums, three warehouses where military equipment was stored, four orphanges, two lunatic asylums, innumerable factories, and much to my subsequent regret, three different nuclear power plants.
I was even allowed aboard a Russian ship at Sevastopol.
HOWEVER, I suspect I was given this access simply because the people involved correctly suspected that if I saw something, I wouldn't know what it was anyway, and so it was harmless to show it to me.
(The exception being the hospitals, but they didn't know I knew about hospitals.)
That Russian ship, for example, I have no idea if it was a cruiser or a battleship or a mine-sweeper or an LST or whatever; the only thing I knew was that it was a pretty big boat with plenty of firearms.
Thus the life of the deaf; one sees far more than what one understands.
