Nice progressives and mean reactionaries alike think everyone wants to be king. What if I told you there's a major world religion whose central virtues include "不敢為天下先": refusing to be emperor? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Treasures_(Taoism) …
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Replying to @St_Rev
You don’t even need to get that exotic with it. From good, plain old Christianity: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+20%3A25-27&version=NIV …
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Replying to @johanatan @St_Rev
a variant on the idea pops up in everything worthwhile but you really don't even have to go further than American Founding Fathers mythos. Washington exemplifying the virtuous president as one who'll do the job if called to but doesn't seek it
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Replying to @schakalsynthetc @johanatan
It comes up contextually in many places, as advice to certain groups of people. In Daoism it's central: compassion, simplicity, and 'not daring to be ahead in the world' are the three treasures.
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Replying to @St_Rev @schakalsynthetc
Those are fairly well central to Christianity too.
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'not daring to be ahead in the world' is more specific and more anti-authoritarian than humility or 'render unto Caesar', and it's one of three rather than one of N.
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