Everything looks paedo to you! You need to stop reading the Daily Mail, even if it is England's Greatest Newspaper.Looks peado to me
This is the sort of high level stray thought you get in the small hours.thread idea: just a conversation between catalog and constant escape
this sounds like primer for white mans burdenWhat are the thoughts on this passage from the Tao Te Ching? From the Stephen Mitchell translation.
What is a good man but a bad man's teacher?
What is a bad man but a good man's job?
If you don't understand this, you will get lost,
however intelligent you are.
It is the great secret.
in the sense that it implies that the "good man" has a responsibility to teach the "bad man" i.e. the colonialist civilizing mission, I believeI'm afraid I don't understand...
I don't think so. the key passage "the good man is the teacher of the bad, the bad man is the charge of the good" is the same, just changing "job" to "charge".Also kind of does away with the colonialist angle