Tag Archives: Dao De Jing

When Strenght Needs Announcing, Something Else is Missing

After listening to a recent presidential speech, I found myself returning to an old passage from the Dao De Jing—not to argue with what I heard, but to understand why it wouldn’t settle. This essay reflects on Dao De Jing, Chapter 24, using it as a quiet measure for modern leadership: how posture, strain, and constant display reveal more than rhetoric ever can. Rather than offering verdicts or outrage, the piece invites readers to notice imbalance, endurance, and the cost of leadership that relies on performance instead of steadiness.