SMALL TOWN, FEW PEOPLE
China Tells You How To Cope With Quarantine
A Chinese classic, the Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu, offers a wise thought experiment for our pandemic times. Here is my literal translation of Verse 80 with updates in brackets: Little country, few people [Small mountain town, closed to tourists] Devices that can do the work of 10-100 [Power tools] Go unused [Construction […]