Friday, February 17, 2017

王何必日利?

Reading Mencius (well, Tsai Chih Chung's Mencius Speaks: The Cure for Chaos), I'm feeling more of the vertigo I've had reading Confucius in theage of trumpery. This exchange (pp 12-13, cf.  梁惠王上1) sounds a warning as we start to see the spirit of "America first" trickle down.