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Taoism in the modern world

usy, and life is beyond hope(Tao52). If you do not say anything and do not start a conflict than you will live a life with little distractions. But if you say something and start a conflict you will always have to defend your argument, and you will have little time to live you life.In the world today people feel that they can not get ahead because someone is always trying to keep them down. Like in the movie Rainmaker the small time lawyer took on a big time team of lawyers and won. Therefore when the battle is joined, the underdog will win(Tao 69). People are always afraid of doing things for themselves. No ones on campus will stand up and fight to make USI a wet campus, because people will not fight together. Instead they will keep getting kicked of campus for something that is legal for half of them to do. The strong and the great stay below. The tender and the delicate stay above(The Canon of Reason and Virtue). The university is the strong and the students are the weak, but What is more fluid, more yielding than water? Yet back it comes again, wearing down the rigid strength(The Way of Life). The students can be just like the water and wear away at the university to get the right to drink on campus.The Tao talks about war and peace. I dare not make the first move but would rather play the guest; I dare not advance an inch but would rather withdraw a foot(Tao 69). No one wants to fight a war on their homeland, because after the war their homes and land will be destroyed. I believe that all world leaders should have to read the Tao Te Ching before they take over a country. Govern a great country as you would fry a small fish: [neither gut nor scale them](The Canon of Reason and Virtue). A leader should not make rules that will hurt the people. I leader should know when he or she is wrong and admit it. I think that leaders forget the purpose of why they are there. Keeping to the main road is easy but people love to be sidetracked(Keep...

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