{"id":1203,"date":"2009-03-23T20:35:17","date_gmt":"2009-03-24T01:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/china\/?p=1203"},"modified":"2014-08-30T13:37:22","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T13:37:22","slug":"bad-daoism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/2009\/03\/bad-daoism\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad Daoism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Calling <a href=\"http:\/\/uselesstree.typepad.com\/useless_tree\/\">Sam Crane.<\/a> Apparently Laozi is the best way to understand modern <a href=\"http:\/\/obsidianwings.blogs.com\/obsidian_wings\/2009\/03\/by-hilzoyandrew-sullivan-has-found-a-fascinating-meditation-on-the-nature-of-conservatism-i-reprint-the-parts-andrew-quoted.html\">American Conservatism<\/a>.\u00a0 Original <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frontporchrepublic.com\/?p=1197\">here<\/a>. Favorable notice <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/2009\/03\/god-and-nature.html\">here<\/a>. It is nice to know that Laozi&#8217;s praise of water which does not strive is very much like those who praise capitalist competition, and that those who willinging take the lower position are much like those who want to &#8220;Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, Iran.&#8221; I suppose I could do a long snarky post on what a silly comparison this is but I guess I will in part leave it to Master Crane.<sup id=\"rf1-1203\"><a href=\"#fn1-1203\" title=\"Who I hope also has better things to do.\" rel=\"footnote\">1<\/a><\/sup> I will say however that this seems to be an example of how while a good application of Ancient Knowledge to the present can be enlightening, a really bad one can go beyond being wrong to being utterly pointless.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"footnotes\"><ol class=\"footnotes\" style=\"list-style-type:decimal\"><li id=\"fn1-1203\"><p >Who I hope also has better things to do.&nbsp;<a href=\"#rf1-1203\" class=\"backlink\" title=\"Return to footnote 1.\">&#8617;<\/a><\/p><\/li><\/ol>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calling Sam Crane. Apparently Laozi is the best way to understand modern American Conservatism.\u00a0 Original here. Favorable notice here. It is nice to know that Laozi&#8217;s praise of water which does not strive is very much like those who praise capitalist competition, and that those who willinging take the lower position are much like those&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[99,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs-and-carnivals","category-china"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9yoH3-jp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4704,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203\/revisions\/4704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}