"When armies fight nobody wins for men die.
The crops are not planted and the fields are destroyed."
This reflects the wisdom of Sun-Tzu, the great ancient Chinese military thinker who argued in his classic The Art of War that the best generals never fight.
They position their forces, resources in intelligent ways to make it impossible for rational enemies to want to war with you.
In other words, only the stupids end up waging war. The smart ones know how to get what they need, want without warfare. What does this teach us about today?
As Dr. Samuel Johnson observed many years ago, we never discover anything new. We rediscover old truths. Taoism offers old truths.
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