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I was just thinking: a big reason we even ended up in this mess of cultural left-wing domination is because it was promoted by academia, and there's not been a popular, persuasive enough antithesis to identity politics, socialism and, ultimately, wokeness to counter it on the academia-level.
I feel the teachings of this book might actually be the antidote to all of this, think about it: most people initially think it's counter-intuitive, but once they understand it, most agree with it.
It's also incredibly hard to attack someone who seems passive, but isn't passive or indifferent at all.
Someone who tries to attack a tranquil Taoist is usually implicitly seen as the agressor, yet the consequences of Taoism are still based, as opposed to Hippie ideology for example.
Taoism reaches the same kind of neatness as nazism, without any of the unsavory or questionable parts. The ideology is inherently persuasive to regular people, but also has enough meat on the bone (i.e. logical consistency) that academia could respect it.
If someone manages to meme Taoism into the general populace as well as academic circles, it's game over for wokeness: the left wing promises remedies, but can't deliver. Taoism can. That's one hell of a value proposal.
