We were locked away in the dirty ghettos, isolated from a world which did not care. Even when we cried out, when our screams of pain and torture wrent the stillness of the night, the world simply did not heed. This was the fulfillment of the curse - no one would care. There is yet another aspect to the problem. At least in the story, the blind man made every attempt to be seen.
Nothing is as pathetic as the individual who is challenged but refuses to acknowledge it.
The torch is our Torah, our banner which we must vigilantly cherish in order to retain that ability to transmit it to our successors. You will go mad from the sight of your eyes that you will see. Hence, the curse is that we will be dumbfounded by the behavior and the rhetoric which will emanate from some of our people's own leadership. They will act in a manner unbecoming a Torah Jew, let alone a spiritual leader. Perhaps if these misguided, self proclaimed spokesmen for Orthodox Jewry would be enlightened by studying Torah, they would be more discerning when rendering baseless halachic decisions and injudicious advice.