Thursday, November 28, 2013

Stupidity and Cruelty

"Power is essentially stupid," said Flaubert. Before artists and intellectuals assent too heartily to this remark (which is of course as true as an aphorism can be) let me note its pangrammatical supplement: knowledge is essentially cruel.

1 comment:

Presskorn said...

Pangrammatically, it is "Power is existentially stupid." Flaubert must have misspelled, I guess...