A driver waiting at the traffic lights goes blind An opthamologist tries to diagnose his distinctive white blindness but is affected before he can read the textbooks It becomes a contagion spreading throughout the city Trying to stem the epidemic the authorities herd the afflicted into a mental asylum where the wards are terrorised by blind thugs & when fire destroys the asylum the inmates burst forth & the last links with a supposedly civilised society are snapped No food no water no government no obligation no order This is not anarchy this is blindness