Hi! It’s me again! “I wonder what’ll happen?”
Prediction: What, exactly, do we do to a deadly poisonous snake Again?
“My duty is to save you all now if I can.”
Now row the god damned boat home, you greedy fuckers.
Word of the day: Hope
espérance, la esperanza, Hoffnung, надія, надежда, 希望
Summitry
Economic relations can be positive sum. Each party in a good trade benefits. Neither party to negotiation ever gets all they want, each makes compromises, but both are better off with the trade than they would have been without it. China will be excluded from technologies with military application. Yet China will also have global market access. China shall not invade Taiwan, committed to peaceful reunification, because USA would defend Taiwan were China to attack it. Yet USA shall not de jure recognize Taiwan. China and the USA shall bargain hard about Israel. Each will seek to implement Chinas peace plan for the Mid-East. China and the USA will increase cultural exchanges. Trade relations could become bilateral but will not be severed or even severely reduced. Indeed, invention and growth indicate that Sino-American trade will increase. China is free to invest in the USA though it is likely the USA will be less willing to invest in China because in practice China is a state capitalist mercantilist dictatorship. This is in fact all good news for the world because it means economic growth and no war anywhwere in East Asia. Even though both Beijing and DC will be discontented each will be better off, and so will the rest of the world since they do appear in fact to be the worlds two largest economies. So enjoy your legs, they are not going to be blown off, and your eyes too. You might not agree on everything but Russia gives us great examples of how it could be so much worse, and indeed the disaggregation and denuclearization of the criminal regime in Moscow is something China and the USA could and should agree on! 解放西伯利亚!
How to restore a society ripped apart by war? How to prevent Yet Another War?
These were the tasks facing both Confucius and Hobbes. Confucius sought to restore order and prevent war with
礼
rituals and rites (including righteous respect for elders, for ones superiors): by observing unquestionably legitimate rites and customs Confucious believed a sense of civil society could be restored to a country ripped apart by rapes and robbery looting and violence all consequent to constant rebellions and wars. This reliance on legitimate institutions is exactly the approach taken by Germany after 1945. Relying on institutions which were inherently legitimate such as churches, universities, the free press and radio, the quasi-constitutional bodies of the German fundamental law the German government and then constitution could be re-formed and the German state re-unified.
仁
Compassion. Confucius also thought that by invoking humane compassion that order could be restored and then maintained. One may recall Nietzche here: Mitleid für diese höhere Menschen.
乐
Music. Confucius believed that the use of music could instill in the people the correct moral feelings, music could rouse them out of sadness and extol them to virtuous actions.
和
Harmony. Like Pythagoras, Confucius believed that there was an essential order and harmony to the universe, and that this fundamentally harmonious nature could be cultivated both within the individual and in social relations between the various classes, clans, tribes, and nations of men. This harmony in turn would lead to peace, and here we may recall Kants similar search for “Perpetual Peace”.
《孔子:決戰春秋》 高清 中英文字幕 周潤發主演 - YouTube
If you in fact wish to comprehend contemporary Chinese governance then you must watch the following movie.
Chinas Empress Wu Zetian (624-705 CE) Spoiler: catty violent, won, won again, then lost…
USSR = Shitty values led to devastating demographic effects
Just about ALL the countries on this list … are ex republics of the USSR.
“Carthago delenda est.”
Now you know the fatal choices Rus made, kindly row the boat home:
Learn Chinese!
“Though rough, this house surrounds me with the sounds and scents of heartfelt virtue.”
Shine bright like a diamond …. smiling bravely beneath the sea
史汀出任務
Shǐ tīng chū rènwù
historian, sandbank, goes out, on a mission i.e. STEM (Science Technology Engineering Medicine) (Here, 史汀, Shi Ting, is a person’s name)
有借有还再借不难.
Moral: a king and a beggar alike can be indifferent to wealth and wealth seekers. But others dare not be indifferent to their duties!
The Sinicization of Christianity: Proof of Concept.
Will you invite Jesus into your heart to discover your Buddha nature?
Do not think I will not do it. I totally will. It will make my Mother proud!
Mencius and Mohi
Last issue i laid a bit of a trap. Mohism, a pre-Christian philosophy VERY much like Christianity 墨子. A war chief would be a more accurate title for him than king and indeed he wargamed at least 9 strategems with an opposing state to dissuade them from war.
Although Mohi himself was a carpenter and inventor, the even greater carpenter Mohist was Lu Ban, 鲁班, who invented the carpenters square, drill, saw, shovel. Earlier Chinese used the spade-fork, Lu Ban also invented various siege implements, the kite, and refined earlier tools to be of greater precision. Having died he ascended and is now God of carpentry and invention, much as a patron saint.
Mencius, in contrast, should be seen as a “mere” recorder of Confucianism, the successor to Confucius. Perhaps the English word monk may be traced to Mencius, for his name in Chinese is Meng Ke 孟軻
Ma Yin 馬殷 (also known as Prince Wumu 武穆王) was in fact a Chinese carpenter king.
So yeah, how about those lost decades of historical Jesus life, hmm? Now,
“Go and sin no more.” John 8:11