'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.




Saturday, January 30, 2010

on certainty 263


263.The schoolboy believes his teachers and his schoolbooks.



perhaps he does – perhaps not

if the schoolboy doesn’t question –

the supposed ‘authority’ of his teachers –

of his schoolbooks –

he will grow up to be a fool


© greg t. charlton. 2010.