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VILLAGE MADMAN: Your face looks scary! What's bothering you?
CONFUSED LOOKING YOUNG MAN: My teacher told me that the best way to govern the world is by making them all follow a good example of Righteousness.
VILLAGE MADMAN: Oh good golly no! That's a load of bullshit. Making people rigidly conform to an example of Righteousness is like fitting a square peg into a round hole. It's like trying to dig a tunnel through the ocean. It's like making a bug carry an entire mountain on its shoulders. A mediocre ruler is determined to shave the square pegs to fit into his image of Righteous Roundness, but a great ruler will make sure everything can realize its full potential. To avoid arrows, birds fly high; to avoid hounds, foxes live beneath churches. If you ask me, the world is already well ruled!
CONFUSED LOOKING YOUNG MAN: My teacher told me that the best way to govern the world is by making them all follow a good example of Righteousness.
VILLAGE MADMAN: Oh good golly no! That's a load of bullshit. Making people rigidly conform to an example of Righteousness is like fitting a square peg into a round hole. It's like trying to dig a tunnel through the ocean. It's like making a bug carry an entire mountain on its shoulders. A mediocre ruler is determined to shave the square pegs to fit into his image of Righteous Roundness, but a great ruler will make sure everything can realize its full potential. To avoid arrows, birds fly high; to avoid hounds, foxes live beneath churches. If you ask me, the world is already well ruled!