S2. Chapter 7: Zohran Mamdani v. Donald Trump — TURN THE VOLUME UP.

Lloyd Dobler reads Chapter 7 of the Tao Te Ching and finds himself caught between a matador and a bull. Zohran Mamdani just moon-walked into City Hall like the Bronx was the birthplace of the Bodhisattva, Queens was the crucible of revolution, Brooklyn is the block-party of rebirth, Staten Island suddenly saw through the static, and like Manhattan was no longer the monument to money’s moral bankruptcy,e but the bonfire of billionaires’ vanities: a market turned monastery where capitalism came to confess.

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Inspired by the Tao Te Ching, chapter 7:

The Tao is infinite, eternal
Why is it eternal?
It was never born;
thus it can never die.
Why is it infinite?
It has no desires for itself;
thus it is present for all beings.

The Master stays behind;
that is why she is ahead.
She is detached from all things;
that is why she is one with them.
Because she has let go of herself,
she is perfectly fulfilled.