Tuesday, February 08, 2011

mastering a city

Comrade Fahd sent me this: "Found in Guy Debord's Societe du Spectacle:  And he who becomes master of a city used to being free and does not destroy her can expect to be destroyed by her, because always she has as pretext in rebellion the name of liberty and her old customs, which never through either length of time or benefits are forgotten, unless citizens are disunited or dispersed, they do not forget that name and those institutions...."
PS This is from Machiavelli's Prince of course.