blindness

sokeus The condition of being blind; unable to see.
puhekieltä Want of intellectual or moral discernment; mental darkness; ignorance, heedlessness.
1976, Frank Herbert, Children of Dune

A tormenting hunger shuddered through her and she wished she could put aside the power. Oh, to be as others were — blind in that safest of all blindnesses, living only the hypnoidal half-life into which birth-shock precipitated most humans.