Tao Te Ching

“But the myth of power is, of course, a very powerful myth, and probably most people in this world more or less believe in it. It is a myth, which, if everybody believes in it, becomes to that extent self-validating. But it is still epistemological lunacy and leads inevitably to various sorts of disaster.”

— Gregory Bateson 1904 – 1980 CE
from Steps to an Ecology of the Mind