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Authority is a passing thing: The Story of one copy of the First Folio and an exhibition of its story in Durham

June 27, 2025

The First Folio of Shakespeare’s plays could be termed to give an authoritative statement of Shakespeare’s Plays. It does not. We think of authoritative things as things that can’t change. They do and must and authoring statements does not guarantee their infinite extension into wisdom that all must take on as belief. This is the … More Authority is a passing thing: The Story of one copy of the First Folio and an exhibition of its story in Durham

Want the truth? Authority is an illusion of power and inequality bolstered by bad education.

July 7, 2023

On what subject(s) are you an authority? Authority is I suppose the right of the maker of something, an author in fact, to descriptively name and evaluate that thing they made. Milton wrote a great and long poem, Paradise Lost, though to show that even God gets his creation wrong and that other perspectives, especially … More Want the truth? Authority is an illusion of power and inequality bolstered by bad education.