José Saramago
Foundation

It was at the table that the doctor's wife expressed her thoughts: "The time has come to decide what we should do. I am convinced that everyone is blind, at least the people I have seen so far have behaved as such. There is no water, no electricity, no supplies of any kind. We are in chaos. This must be true chaos." "Will there be a government?" asked the first blind man. "I don't think so, but if there is, it will be a government of blind people wanting to govern the blind, that is, nothingness trying to organize nothingness." "Then there is no future," said the old man with the black eye patch. "I don't know if there will be a future. What we are dealing with now is how we can live in this present." "Without a future, the present is useless; it's as if it didn't exist." "Humanity may manage to live without eyes, but then it will cease to be humanity. The result is plain to see..."