#dependence

Ave, Caesar, morituri te salutant

Modern readers studyig the passage from Chapter XVIII of Short Treatise on God, Man, and His Well-Beings tumble over the words "servants" and "slaves." They hear political slavery. Spinoza means something different. He is attacking the fantasy of self-sufficiency.

His target is the belief that there is a little sovereign ruler inside each person who exists independently and generates himself from his own power. Spinoza's answer is brutal. You did not create your body. You did not create your language. You did not create the laws of physics. You did not create your parents, your era, your nervous system, your desires, or most of the conditions that made you possible. Therefore independence is largely an illusion.

But then comes the surprising move. Instead of finding this humiliating, Spinoza finds it magnificent. Why? Because he thinks dependence on the whole is far greater than imaginary independence from it. The fact that there is no separate center is not a tragedy. The tragedy is believing there is one."

Be complete, fully dependent on one another

Sew our skin together, fuse our bones, and tie our hearts into a bloody ribbon

Feel your warm blood flow through my vines, brush my fingers through your hair, and finally become complete

— MAGGOT ou MAGGIE

• Minor!!!! Do not make my content sexual. Or do. I don’t really care

• This is an account where I store my love for my favorite person, aka my gyrlfriend!!!!

• I have a lot of mental illness and become incredibly dependent on hyr so there may be dependence undertones in my posts