Friday, January 27, 2017

DEAR CONFUCIUS

I often find your sentences quite illuminating.

However, some of them clearly show that you wrote them many centuries ago.


For instance, this one that I chose at random (translated into English: Choose a job you like and you'll have never to work another day in your life).

I'd love that to be true nowadays.

But times change and, unfortunately, leaders are not being chosen any longer for their wisdom.
Neither for their far-sightedness.
Even less for the concern about the people they govern.

I wonder what sentences you would write in these "times of darkness and chaos"*

(*Quoted from Leonard Cohen)

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