/lit/ - Literature

>>21620408
>For some reason, ancient Chinese philosophy gets translated by people with a poor grasp of Chinese too often.

it all goes back to laozi who was the original "fuck the rules just be urself" poster which people like ursula k le guin and benjamin hoff take to mean "fuck it bro just ignore convention and do what you want, life is too short to worry too much about being correct #yolo".

an alan watts tier faggot would tell you not to worry about being right all the time because "don't let perfect be the enemy of good, live in the groovy moment bro." and these people practically sprouted like bamboo during the counterculture faggotry of the 60s etc. i've seen multiple "translations" of all this stuff where the author says they don't give a fuck if it's correct lmao.

>>20026611
Your choice. However, at the risk of sounding like a Tarantino film, I wouldn't put too much credence into what 'they' say anon.