There's a passage in the Dao De Jing that goes like:
If a country is governed wisely,
its inhabitants will be content.
They enjoy the labor of their hands
and don't waste time inventing
labor-saving machines.
Since they dearly love their homes,
they aren't interested in travel.
There may be a few wagons and boats,
but these don't go anywhere.
There may be an arsenal of weapons,
but nobody ever uses them.
People enjoy their food,
take pleasure in being with their families,
spend weekends working in their gardens,
delight in the doings of the neighborhood.
And even though the next country is so close
that people can hear its roosters crowing and its dogs barking,
they are content to die of old age
without ever having gone to see it.
http://thetaoteching.com/taoteching80.htmlWhich translates to me as... Don't be nosy. Mind your own business. There is no true social justice for all as some might envision. If justice is enacted, there need to be those that feel they're being treated unjust. Enforcing one's perspective of justice thus only serves to create more tension in society, not less. Try to make everyone and everything equal and you'll witness stagnation for some time, then intense unrest as the stored dynamic potential break free once more.
Dao cultivated in upper dantian
De cultivated in middle dantian
Jing cultivated in lower dantian
Together they are the real way
How do you want to give each culture's history the same recognition? You can't. Not everyone's group was equally important in building our modern, globalized civilization. If one group was capable enough to exploit the other, what were the differences? The one's counting on their good hearts to survive always die first.
Every group wants to push their narrative as most important, competing with others instead of living alongside and accepting our differences.
Our peace is very fragile and it won't last much longer... All because people feel disadvantaged, feel undervalued, feel misrepresented in public dialogue.
You want to help the community? Get together and create a church of your own beliefs. What do you belief in? Killing, stealing, dealing drugs, civil unrest? Or helping one another, trying to feed one another, setting examples for each other? What would motivate people outside of your community more to help you?
I pulled these words out of my arse. Really caring about any of this is way too exhausting. Who do you think you are that you can create vast societal change? Who do you think cares about your so called cultivated, intellectual opinion of the world? Highly esteemed like steam from cow's shit raising in winter.
Explain one human and you explain the world.
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End of my creative writing exercise