What defines a hero
I was thinking about this book: the way of the samuri
there's a passage in there that says something like: death must be in your thoughts constantly
you must approach each day as if it will end in death - or something
right now everything seems completely senseless
meaningless maybe, but senseless
there's no sense in that
no sense in the samuri way
except as an evolutionary cul-de-sac for some japanese cultural niche
samuri doesn't evovle of its own accord, it evolves by external sociological forces
they thought they had it all figured out - maybe they did - for their own purposes - maybe they let in a little dao - enough to fill in the cracks and let nature take care of the rest
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