Last year I got wind of Michel Foucault. Foucault's life work was in demonstrating the interdependence of Power and Truth. The Power defines health, to which any deviation is sickness. What I didn't add, is that Foucault died early - of the GRID.
"I demonstrate it thus", indeed.
I mentioned earlier that maybe Foucault's readers be better off reading Girard. In this case I suspect Достоевский would have aided Foucault more. Foucault based himself, whether he admitted it or no, upon Monotheletism. The monothelete, once he relieves G-d from duty, is left with only Power. His morality becomes ... whatever he can get away with. Dostoevsky - an Orthodox in Russia - saw the same phenomenon among his more-secular peers. The ensuing events in Slavic Orthodoxy proved Dostoevsky right.
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