| If JFK were alive today, he might have half a mind to ask why that should be unacceptable to people in the US. His 1961 inaugural address not only suggested avoiding the Sith morality of "one to embody power, the other to crave it"[1]: > "And if a beachhead of cooperation may push back the jungle of suspicion, let both sides join in creating a new endeavor, not a new balance of power, but a new world of law, where the strong are just and the weak secure and the peace preserved." but even referenced a chinese chengyu, 騎虎難下: > "remember that, in the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside." (Cynics will note that both JFK and НСХ were cancelled, just a few seasons later. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_John_F._Kenne... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikita_Khrushchev#Removal An optimist would note both fates were better than being nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change.) On a much lighter note, also from 1961, here's a musical number that starts with a construction crew holiday party and ends with Sputnik (1m47): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmTzvtLXB8s [1] Anyone know how the Rule of Two is translated in chinese? (I've never watched eps. 1-3, so I wouldn't even know what timestamps to check in subs.) It seems like it'd be amenable to the chengyu treatment, along the lines of 一霸一觊? |