'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, June 12, 2010

on certainty 507


507. “If this deceives me, what does ‘deceive’ mean anymore? 



authority is deception

you are deceived when you accept a claim of authority –

and you deceive when you claim authority


greg t. charlton. 2010.