Laozi and Confucius walk into a bar…

They didn’t walk into a bar together, but it’s sobering to think that these two monumental pillars of human thought lived at roughly the same time in the same part of world, allowing for the greatest meeting of dueling philosophies

The Spring and Autumn Period

“Ancient scholars studied for their own improvement. Modern scholars study to impress others.” — Confucius With the benefit of hindsight, we now know that the real tragedy of the Western Zhou wasn’t their decline. It was that when they fell,