A previous thread (and a comment insulting my praise for Confucianism) got me thinking that I should start a new "Wisdom of ..." series to go alongside from "Wisdom of Heinlein". Stay tuned for more on that. In the meantime, let's start off with a song I first discovered when I was living in the east, and which I used to hum to keep myself sane while riding on crowded public transport. Thanks Monty Python!

The world today seems absolutely crackers,
With nuclear bombs to blow us all sky high.
There's fools and idiots sitting on the trigger.
It's depressing and it's senseless, and that's why...
I like Chinese.
I like Chinese.
There's nine hundred million of them in the world today.
You'd better learn to like them; that's what I say.

I like Chinese thought,
The wisdom that Confucius taught.
If Darwin is anything to shout about,
The Chinese will survive us all without any doubt.