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Mongol philosophy proved far superior in practical matters.

Anti-hedonist. Confucius beat a drunk hobo with a cane, telling him he had failed, as a father, as a worker, as a china man.

>>21480986
Humble little Laozi.

>>21481088
Chud-core of the east

>>21480986
fuck chinx fuck chyna
op is a faggot

>>21481129

>>21481246
well this is the "reading" forum so yeah read it and learn

>>21481088
What would Zhuangzi do if he saw a drunk hobo?

>>21480986
I love the fact that from 1400-1900, chinese government workers were basically forced to do the equivalent of learning Latin and writing essays on Ovid as a prerequisite test for their careers. For the most part, not even royals we’re able to circumvent these tests

>>21481129
actual brain dead post, why are you even on this board?

>>21481368
Because /pol/ is the perfect example of dunning kruger

>>21481368
spotted another commie chink
why are you trying to shill that shit here?

>>21481129

>>21481416
another 1 where do all you leftist scum come from??

>>21480986
if taoism won china would be much better off today, they'd probably be more like europe/usa
unfortunately confucianism won

>>21481395
I'm a white nazi

>>21481420
you have been spamming this here for ages and you never get more than 1 or 2 responses calling you a retard, are you trolling or are you actually hyper paranoid that the chinese communists are colonising 4chan or something?

>>21481319
He wouldn't do anything because he understands that wealth is not preferential to poverty. At most he might pity the drunk because he can only hear the piping of men, and not of earth or heaven.

>>21481437
Don't feed the trolls.

>>21481420
China is unbelievably right wing

>>21481420
What's with all these file images that are posted constantly once you mention china? It contains shit like 'China vs le democracy'. This seems like some forced gay CIA meme.

>>21481012
>mongolian empire: rises and falls quickly like a teenager's dick
>chinese empire: rising slowly and steadily to this day

>>21481319
He'd probably praise him. There are several instances in the book where the uselessness of a thing is revealed to be its true virtue.
For example in book four:
>The region of Jingshi in Song is fine for growing catalpas, cypresses, and mulberries. But those that are more than one or two arm lengths around are cut down for people who want monkey perches; those that are three or four spans around are cut down for the ridgepoles of tall roofs; and those that are seven or eight spans are cut down for the families of nobles or rich merchants who want side boards for coffins. So they never get to live out the years Heaven gave them but are cut down in midjourney by axes. This is the danger of being usable. In the Jie sacrifice, oxen with white foreheads, pigs with turned-up snouts, and men with piles cannot be offered to the river. This is something all the shamans know, and hence they consider them inauspicious creatures. But the Holy Man, for the same reason, considers them highly auspicious.
Or at the end of book one
>Huizi said to Zhuangzi, “I have a big tree called a shu. Its trunk is too gnarled and bumpy to apply a measuring line to, its branches too bent and twisty to match up to a compass or square. You could stand it by the road, and no carpenter would look at it twice. Your words, too, are big and useless, and so everyone alike spurns them!” Zhuangzi said, “Maybe you’ve never seen a wildcat or a weasel. It crouches down and hides, watching for something to come along. It leaps and races east and west, not hesitating to go high or low—until it falls into the trap and dies in the net. Then again there’s the yak, big as a cloud covering the sky. It certainly knows how to be big, though it doesn’t know how to catch rats. Now you have this big tree, and you’re distressed because it’s useless. Why don’t you plant it in Not-Even-Anything Village or the field of Broadand-Boundless, relax and do nothing by its side, or lie down for a free and easy sleep under it? Axes will never shorten its life, nothing can ever harm it. If there’s no use for it, how can it come to grief or pain?”

>>21481129
Instead of reading badly written screencaps, read books about what Marxism is and why it failed.

>>21481730
whats the difference between a shaman and a holy man

>>21480986
Any Chinese philosophy, even something you would think is innocuous, is so dystopic and totalitarian it makes Machiavelli look like a liberal anarchist.
>Confucianism
"Obey old people at all costs"
>Taoism
"The way is both based and cringe, also keep the masses illiterate lol"
>Legalism
Do I need to explain this one?
They still don't have shit on Plato though LMAO.

>>21481393
>dunning kruger
Don't be sci brainlet. If you want to express the concept then quote Pope.

>>21481743
I think with holy man he means the one who follows the dao while the shamans are the priests of the traditional rituals.

>>21481744
>They still don't have shit on Plato though LMAO
True, but Plato is still a fag and all his books should be burned.

>>21481799
finally someone said it

>>21481420
>victims of communism
>black book of communism
You should get better sources. When I was a commie it was very easy to stay that way because retards always posted sources like these which are well-known for their inaccuracy. It gives a false feeling that you are right but in reality, you are still wrong but your opponent is dumber than you