The Plenitude of Arboreal Beauty

Then the Master said, “I never enlighten anyone who has not been driven to distraction by trying to understand a difficulty or who has not got into a frenzy trying to put his ideas into words.”

Now the Master says, “I never enlighten anyone who has not tried Googling it first.”

My position on The Analects takes the form of one of Confucius’ anecdotes. It’s an allegorical commentary on the contrast between Confucian scholarship and the modern commodification of information; the difference between ancient wisdom and instant answers.