Mastodawn

I'm so sick people thinking if they don't like the system, they can just not be a part of it. There will always be a system, and you will always be affected by it. There is no system that runs in autopilot. Even in the best case scenario, where there is revolution (we don't need to talk about the 50 years of violent unrest that follows violent revolution, right?) there will still be a system, you'll still be a part of it, it will still be vulnerable.

The Cost of freedom is eternal vigilance, the cost of not participating is even higher.

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Xenofact (he/him)

@RickiTarr a thing I noticed in my readings of Taoism and other Chinese works was an idea of "seeking a leader to serve." At first I thought "ah, that's just feudalism."

Then as I read on I realized it was "work with the best people you can find or the system will suck." There's a reason the "Art of War" is basically "complete royal idiot's guide to not fucking up."

Taoists struggled with questions of disengagement versus engagement and from what I read, ended up on the side of engaging.