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LeftishBrit

(41,205 posts) Sun Nov 30, 2014, 03:57 AM Nov 2014

This old Chinese poem is very relevant to the UK today!

ON THE BIRTH OF HIS SON
Su Tung-p'o (1036--1101)

Families, when a child is born
Want it to be intelligent.
I, through intelligence,
Having wrecked my whole life,
Only hope the baby will prove
Ignorant and stupid.
Then he will crown a tranquil life
By becoming a Cabinet Minister

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This old Chinese poem is very relevant to the UK today! (Original Post) LeftishBrit Nov 2014 OP

I think it's pretty universal Warpy Nov 2014 #1

Warpy

(111,254 posts)

1. I think it's pretty universal

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Sun Nov 30, 2014, 04:36 AM

Nov 2014

Dumb people don't do that bad a job, though, unless they're ideologues.

Ideologues are so wedded to their ideology that they're blind to its failures.

Give me a muddler any old day over a supremely confident ideologue.

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