"He could not get away from that grim notion that true violence is that of the self-evident: what is evident is violent, even if this evidence is gently, liberally, democratically represented; what is paradoxical, what does not follow of itself, is less so, even if it is imposed arbitrarily: a tyrant who promulgated preposterous laws would all in all be less violent than the masses which were content to utter what is self-evident, what follows of itself: the “natural” is, in short, the ultimate outrage."
Roland Barthes, Roland Barthes (via sonofapritch)
my students could learn a thing or two from Roland Barthes
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