and the Chinese text accomplishes this by rarely talking about specific things acting on specific things and talking about the patterns of nature and people instead.

or in the case of lines like "Crush the sharp," what is doing the crushing and what is the sharp. Although the DDJ is filled with political implication, it retains ambiguity on purpose. Daoism is the study of relations, and cause and effect,

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Oh William... your wine sure seems... viscous... and red.... Seems normal actually, it must be very delicious!

That's another way to put it yeah! Our view of history forgets the ordinary people often because history wasn't written by them. I think this is pretty clearly true and observable, and you don't need some citation to say it; so it's a good example of my post's point.

Not sure what this has to do with marxism or bullshit detectors, it's a very observable trend in any study of history

Class is quite real in ancient societies, and their social norms and rituals were generally more "out there" because they had the potential to be out there, while the lower classes had incredible spiritual and artistic variety, their norms were more often pragmatic and material in concern.

Yeah that's why a priori insight into the 4th dimension is so important!

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