I make no secret of the fact that I detest George W. Bush and his criminal co-conspirators within and without the federal government. I detest their deep dishonesty towards the people that they claim to represent; their ignorance of the worlds of those whom they profess to care about and upon whom they have visited death, destruction, chaos; their self-righteous and supremacist version of Christianity--Christo-fascism, I call it. I never tire of ridiculing them. But today I think that I will offer them some wisdom...Not because I harbor the illusion that wisdom is something that Bush-Cheney, Inc. desires or has any use for...I offer it just because...
From the Tao te Ching:
When a country obtains great power,
it becomes like the sea:
all streams run downward into it.
The more powerful it grows,
the greater the need for humility.
Humility means trusting the Tao,
thus never needing to be defensive.
A great nation is like a great man:
When he makes a mistake, he realizes it.
Having realized it, he admits it.
Having admitted it, he corrects it.
He considers those who point out his faults
as his most benevolent teachers.
He thinks of his enemy
as the shadow that he himself casts.
If a nation is centered in the Tao,
if it nourishes its own people
and doesn't meddle in the affairs of others,
it will be a light to all nations in the world.
--trans. by Stephen Mitchell
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