'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, September 03, 2010

on certainty 634


634. “I can’t be making a mistake; and if the worst comes to the worst I shall make my proposition into a norm.”



that is to make –

ignorance and stupidity –

into a norm –

not a big stretch either –

for as far as I can see –

ignorance and stupidity –

already is –

the norm


© greg t.charlton. 2010.