{"id":30547,"date":"2013-12-30T19:30:56","date_gmt":"2013-12-30T19:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=30547"},"modified":"2013-12-30T19:31:51","modified_gmt":"2013-12-30T19:31:51","slug":"taoism-with-intelligence-yeah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=30547","title":{"rendered":"Taoism with Intelligence, yeah!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; this post is useless and a delight, if you catch the same drift I do ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>Well you know me, I love juxtapositions and variations on a theme, and I have a keen interest in applying them with intelligence to Intelligence &#8212; especially where it meets Religion &#8212; so this one&#8217;s a natural!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SPEC-intel-or-tao-inside.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SPEC-intel-or-tao-inside.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"SPEC intel or tao inside\" width=\"607\" height=\"633\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-30548\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SPEC-intel-or-tao-inside.png 607w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SPEC-intel-or-tao-inside-287x300.png 287w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 607px) 100vw, 607px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I mean, you might think the upper panel was an IC logo since it uses the word &#8220;intel&#8221;, but it&#8217;s not &#8212; it&#8217;s the long-time logo for a brand of computer chips from <strong>Intel Corp<\/strong> &#8212; now found in both PCs and Macs. <\/p>\n<p>But the IC was not to be outdone, and &#8212; <em>mirabile dictu<\/em> &#8212; has responded with its own &#8220;inside&#8221; logo.  Intel is fine, you see, but frankly Tao is better.<\/p>\n<p>My own preferred Taoist text is that of <strong>Chuang Tzu<\/strong>&#8216;s <em>Inner Chapters<\/em> &#8212; &#8220;chapters inside&#8221; one might almost say &#8212; which you can find translated by the excellent <strong>Burton Watson<\/strong> in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Chuang-Tzu-Writings-Burton-Watson\/dp\/0231105959\">Chuang Tzu: Basic Writings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Open it up, go inside&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p><strong>NSA&#8217;s Tao source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><\/strong><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/fotostrecke\/photo-gallery-nsa-s-tao-unit-introduces-itself-fotostrecke-105372.html\">Der Spiegel<\/a><\/li>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; this post is useless and a delight, if you catch the same drift I do ] . Well you know me, I love juxtapositions and variations on a theme, and I have a keen interest in applying them with intelligence to Intelligence &#8212; especially where it meets Religion &#8212; so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[526,134,627,239,47,218,687,855,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles-cameron","category-computers","category-doublequotes","category-ic","category-intelligence","category-philosophy","category-specs","category-tao","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30547"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30563,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30547\/revisions\/30563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}