Monologue-ing Chris

Not only Papal power, every kind of 'power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely (Dalberg-Acton, 1887)'. It is bad to be oppressed by a minority (sic, Dalberg-Acton, 1???), but it is, agreed personally as a minority here and there, even worse to be oppressed by a majority indeed. Although Dalberg-Acton was a historian (oh come on, it's not Kostova's novel), he saw clearly what democracy, party politics and majority tyranny were/will be and stated 'the one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.' The mentioned suddenly reminded me of Toyama Kōichi's MV (with some thoughts followed) seen on the other day. This is not kuso at all; this is cruel.

Well, my main point made here was stimulated by Foucault's (not only a historian but a philosopher & sociologist...such a crossdiciplinary one) definition of power-knowledge though. Tell me if 'both power and knowledge are to be seen as de-centralised, relativistic, ubiquitous, and unstable (dynamic) systemic phenomena', is there any possible to at least remain a never-ending 'balance (of terror)' among the state, education and the market in the palaestra? Hypothesis is, power and knowledge both mutually produce each other with no doubts but there's neither absolute power nor absolute knowledge (therefore, no suppressions from each other toward each other either).

Ok, I tell you: these are all rubbish. Get back to work on more readings and end up buried in that there're just always oodles of them --- Finding Neverland (not Barrie's story about his creation of Peter Pan, but my pathetic realm with never-ending readings) --- one after one, one followed by another.

BTW, a dictum which is also insightful: 'the most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities', so Dalberg-Acton should say to Chou Hsi-wei, the self-indulgent elitist. Taipei county has long been viewed as the worst county ever under Chou's regime. Referred to what Dalberg-Acton said before he concluded his power corruption statement, 'and remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men (sic) with the mentality of gangsters get control'. Now we see where we find the real example of the concept 'mentality of gangsters getting control' (ibid).

Further readings about Chou's regime:
那個屬於他們的城市。從三鶯部落事件談都市原住民。
對「板橋湳仔溝建高架快速道路」之看法與期望