At some point in human history it went from ‘because I said so’ (read: incoherent tyranny) to ‘because it is written’ (read: the voice of the collective hath spoken). The development of Unauthoriship. ‘IT’ rides forth as the cognitive Cesar who plays the violin whilst setting fire to the Rome of our personhood, our intelligence, and our creativity.

This obliged obeisance to the voices of dead or distant experts is evidence of a form of induced hemorrhaging where our personal authority is bled off at our permanent and catastrophic expense.