Monday, 23 June 2014

the monuments of culture

"One definition of a prophet is a person who threatens culture's power structure by holding up a mirror to its folly and showing where such folly leads...culture kills such a prophet, and, having killed the prophet to be rid of his threat, that culture then builds a "monument over the prophet's grave"

The Biology of Transcendence by Joseph Chiltern Pearce 

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