Nation and rank divide people into enemy and ally, but cross that line to sit face to face and each finds the same human in the other. Are the borders that divide us real, or an illusion we have agreed to believe? Who is the true enemy?
THE QUESTION THE FILM ASKS
With the lines of nation and rank, do I set up as mere enemy one who is in fact the same as me?
THE CLASSIC'S ANSWER · ORIGINAL
兼相愛 交相利
📜 THE CLASSIC'S ANSWER
Love one another without distinction, and benefit one another.
💡 TL;DR
Mozi offered universal love, drawing no sides, as the remedy for a world in disorder.
📝The Classic Answers
Mozi offered universal love, drawing no sides, as the remedy for a world in disorder. The borders that split people into ally and enemy look solid, yet cross that line to sit together and the same hunger, the same longing appear. What divides us is often not the real but an illusion we agreed to believe. Before setting someone up as mere enemy by the lines of nation and rank, I choose first to see the same human beyond the line.
— ONGO · Curator
🌱Apply It Today
If you drew a line today around 'one of them,' find one thing beyond the line that is the same as you.
📖 Classic Source:
Mozi, Universal Love.
Ancient text in the public domain; rendered and interpreted independently by ONGO.
The film is honored as an equal questioner; its plot is rendered only as a universal dilemma. The classic source is an ancient text (Public Domain), and the reflection is 100% original ONGO content.
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A Bridge Between Eras — the wisdoms this question threads
Reading the new through the old — classics this question awakens.
