Category Culture
안전성
어린이를 보호해야 합니다. 안전한 놀이공간이 없으면 어린이들이 상처나 멍 생길 수 있습니다. 어린이는 매우 안전한 환경이 없으면 실패를 경험할 수 있습니다. 불은 위험하고 연기가 나오기 때문에 어린이들은 불놀이를 하거나 기계를 만지면 안됩니다. 이는 어린이의 눈을 아프게 하고 기침을 유발합니다. 작동하는 기계 또한 위생상태가 좋지 못하고 위험하기 때문에 어린이들의 안전을 위협하고 있습니다. 허나 어린이들 거절을 나타내면 […]
Safety
It’s important to protect children. If we don’t give them safe places to play, they might get cuts or get bruises. If we don’t give children a safe environment, they might experience failure and be sad. We should never, ever let children play with fire or touch machines. Fire is dangerous and it makes smoke, […]
Sun Tzu and the Concubine Army
The Grand Historian Ssu-ma Ch’ien gives the following biography of Sun Tzu: Sun Tzu was a native of the Ch’i State. His “Art of War” made him famous and earned the attention of Ho Lu, King of Wu. Ho Lu said to him “I have carefully read your 13 chapters. May I test your theory […]
Part One – Dr. McN, Professor CL and the Niceness Trap
Where does leadership come from? I’d like to start this series by telling you about the best and worst teachers I ever had. This is partly because I feel the story is interesting, partly because I want to recognize and thank the previously mentioned best teacher and partly because this will work better if we […]
Power and Persuation
Query: Of what importance is goodness in the weak? The righteously ineffectual fall like all the rest. in reply “Hence it comes about that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed.” – Nicollo Machiavelli Query: The most useless of our philosophers are fond of saying ‘great men are almost […]
Break Time, A Love Letter to Yoon-mi on her birthday.
Annyeong Jaggi, I’m on break. You know how humid it gets in Geumsan. I’d love to shower but I’ve got to visit the security office. The security ajeoshi smokes and he’s old and he wants my foreigner card. He wears anti-tanning arm protectors so his skin won’t get dark. This is ridiculous – his skin […]
Anti-Asian Article From 1900
This is a challenge for my readers – an intellectual exercise. Regardless of whether you are pro-immigrant or not, and regardless of where you are from, I’d invite you to try and make an anti-immigrant argument that doesn’t follow the form of this hilariously dated and super racist article from the height of the Yellow […]
Murrietta the Moral Fights Corporate Greed, Part 1
Murrietta the Moral has a problem. Her boss, Maurine the Mercenary, wants to develop the idyllic Bullseyesian tribe’s land for Capitalism Berry farming. She thinks that by cozying up to corporations, she can increase the province’s tax revenues and help out under-funded schools. Oh, the naivete. The corporate exploitation of indigenous peoples’s resources has always […]
Murrietta the Moral Fights Corporate Greed, Part 2
Part 2 (click here for part one) As Fred Freedom and Murrietta the Moral celebrate, a furious Maurine the Mercenary gets on the phone with Danielle Demonic, CEO of Bastards Inc. “Danielle,” Maurine says. “I am going to develop that damned land. No way in hell I continue to under-fund our provinces’ schools because we’re […]
Murrietta the Moral Fights Corporate Greed, Part 3
Part Three (click here for part two) Johnny Von Crime sat in his house watching the news about Bastards Inc being removed from Bullseyesian territory. The thought of all those Capitalism Berries going to waste moved him near to tears. If somebody with real stones moved in, there’d be a fortune in black market Capitalism […]
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