S2. Chapter 8: Be Water, My Friend (And Other Ways to Survive Empire)

In Chapter 8, Lloyd Dobler channels Lao Tzu, Bruce Lee, and Standing Rock to ask: how do we stay liquid in a country obsessed with hard takes? Be Water, My Friend is a meditation on softness as strength, ego as ice, and the radical art of flowing through empire.

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Inspired by the Tao Te Ching, chapter 8:

The supreme good is like water,
which nourishes all things without trying to.
it is content with the low places that people disdain.
thus it is like the Tao.

in dwelling, live close to the ground.
in thinking, keep to the simple.
in conflict, be fair and generous .
in governing, don't try to control.
in work do, what you enjoy.
in family life, be completely present.

When you are content to be simply yourself
and don't compare or compete,
everybody will respect you.