Man must be “master of his own thoughts,” said Spinoza. He must never be “compelled to speak only according to the diktats of the supreme power.” That is the first task of the heretic, then: to resist compulsion. To speak as he sees. To never fear to express the truth. To refuse, at all costs, to say anything as abominable as “her penis.”
Brendan O’Neill is the chief political writer for spiked magazine, based in London. The above was taken from his new book, A Heretic’s Manifesto: Essays On The Unsayable, in which sources for the above quotations and references can be found.
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