'For the person or persons that hold dominion, can no more combine with the keeping up of majesty the running with harlots drunk or naked about the streets, or the performances of a stage player, or the open violation or contempt of laws passed by themselves than they can combine existence with non-existence'.

- Benedict de Spinoza. Political Treatise. 1677.




Friday, July 17, 2009

on certainty 73


73. But what is the difference between a mistake and a mental disturbance? Or what is the difference between my treating it as a mistake and my treating it as a mental disturbance?



first up there are no mistakes –

what we face at every turn is –

uncertainty

as to ‘mental disturbance’ –

it’s a description of someone’s behaviour –

which like any other description-

is open to question –

open to doubt

we should perhaps note here –

that it is a description

that has been used prejudicially

against those who are different –

by those who do not –

or cannot tolerate

difference


© greg t. charlton. 2009.