Don't want to teach

[robinturner]

Eeh, it's nearly three o'clock, and I have to get up tomorrow and teach a class on yin and yang and the five elements. My yin and yang are not going to be in harmony - yin is going to say "stay in bed" and yang won't be in a state to put up a counter-argument. As for the five elements, the sixth element, raki, beats them all.

Hexagram 65

The teacher is not in harmony, and the country is in disorder.
He has lost his magic tortoise.
Dawn breaks, but he does not rise.
It is not advantageous to cross the great river.
No blame.

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[solri.livejournal.com]

Oooh, and I've just remembered that after my class, I was planning on sitting in on a colleague's class, then going to a seminar on Plato's hierarchy of ideas. No way. I shall go to bed with an Iain Banks novel and pretend this planet isn't there, then get up and get out of as much as I can. I owe it to my students to give them a decent lesson, but the rest is silence.

One thing older people used to say to me when I was young was "You think the world owes you a living." Wrong. Society owes me a living (American-style capitalist gangs don't count as societies). But the world? No, it doesn't owe me a living. If it had any moral sense (which of course it doesn't) it would cease to exist forthwith, but as Iain Banks says:

"The universe does not have our best interests at heart, and to assume for a moment that it does, ever did or ever might is to make the most calamitous and hubristic of mistakes."