In 1804, the Swiss ophthalmologist (later a political philosopher) Ignaz Paul Vital Troxler (1780-1866) published the results of his clinical studies on the changes in visual perception when a certain object is fixed intensively. The title of this publication was: "Ueber das Verschwinden bestimmter Gegenstände aus unserem Gesichtskreise" (on the disappearance of certain objects from our visual field), and the phenomenon described by Troxler, the "peripheral fading" is known in neuropsychological research as "Troxler Effect".
The Swiss People's Party's central theme is Switzerland, i.e. a certain isolationist, paternalist and corporatist image of our country and of the nation defined by the party's senior mentor, Christoph Blocher.
The glasses, through which the actual president of the SVP, Toni Brunner, invites Swiss voters to view the world, in order to win the federal parliamentary elections in Switzerland, are an excellent illustration for the loss of peripheral perception in the field of culture, politics and economy which commands his party's politics and which renders the party and it's followers blind to whatever happens outside our territory.
