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LAO TZU: TAO TE CHING trans: DC Lau
A quick reacquaintance with one of the most misunderstood ancient books, from which you can see a lof the Jedi and Sith origins in Star Wars… For those unfamiiar with it, it’s around 70% a “secret management tips for officials and politicians” kind of thing with universal tropes like a happy populae being a productive populace, and largely conveying the message of “FFS don’t micromanage your people cos they’ll hate it and it fucks everything up.” The other 30% is the interesting makes-you-think philosophy stuff. I still love it. (Even though Lao Tzu actually just means The Old Man, and his actual name was Li Er Tan, who was a historian, and he probably didn’t actually write it anyway...)

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