Exactly What I Hate

Mozi and Mencius are perhaps the two philosophers
I find myself agreeing with the most.
I find most of what they say to be common sense.
However, when Aristotle is diminished for the sake of Mencius
I cannot begin to fathom what political motivation this entails.

I would like to burn down the institutions that say,
"Aristotle is wrong." He was not wrong.
Do Mencius and Aristotle conflict?
Can science discover human motivation?
Freud, actually, had a more accurate psychology
Than either Mencius or Aristotle.
Yet, we're told Freud was a lunatic
Whose only contribution to psychology
Was the Oedipus complex.
There's some truth to the Oedipus complex---
Men and women seek mates which resemble
Their parents.
I could go further, but it would be unlawful to speak.
In the words of St. Paul, when I was in heaven
That is the unlawful words to speak.

Must we diminish truth because a white man discovered it?
Or a Jew?
Or a Chinaman?
Or a Native American?
Or a Black Man?

There's truth which roaming tribesman find on the veldts of Africa---
A simple philosophy of sustenance, and the joy and satisfaction of the hunt.
Innocent those people are, probably the most innocent on the entire planet.
And they believe their soul goes with the Son to heaven;
That is the extent of their religion.
Even they find truth.
The most primitive men in the world.

Let us not erase history.
Aristotle was correct---
In many ways, he was correct.
Like any man, in many ways he wasn't,
Though most of the time, what he said in principle were true.

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