Confucius:
XVIII
Chi K'ang asked Confucius about government.
Kung-tze replied: Government consists in correcting: if you lead by being correct, who will dare be incorrect?
XIX
Chi K'ang sked Confucious about government: "What about killing the wayward for the benefit of the well behaved?"
Kung-Tze answered: Why kill to govern? If you want the good, then people will be good; the proper man acting according to his conscience is wind, the lesser folk acting on conscience, grass; grass with wind above it must bend.
1.Chairman Mao Tsetung:
"Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun."
the murmur of voices
the old men from the long march
fidgeting with power
in the dark halls
of the People's Congress
the predisposition of the long night
disclosed in an old book
they have long ago forgotten
there is the old manner counter to
reform and an old reform counter
to all manner
humanity
the living impulse
progress
above and beyond the discursive
above and beyond the call
2.
the murmur of voices
the old men from the long march
listen
from the cold dark halls
of the People's Congress
to the distant sound of gunfire
in Tianamen
the solemn face of Mao
stares down
upon the
People's Army crushing
the people
there is always a face
to turn away from
always a choice
made
3.
the murmur of voices
the old men from the long march
stand erect
in the shadow
of their grim epic
~ Do you ever have anything positive to say to anyone, Vesuvius? Anything that's not some kind of a dig or aggressive challenge? Or, how about your own comments based purely on the post itself. Something with substance?
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