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One mitigating factor with the Mohists and Confucians is that, despite their ineffectiveness, they at least want to help others and improve the world. The problem is that their "petty understanding" - Zhuangzi's term for any narrow, rigid view of the world - sets the tone for society as a whole, giving rise to a society composed of arrogant know-it-alls, publicly prosperous and confident but secretly miserable, feverishly persuing a false vision of happiness that always lies just beyond their reach.

Edward Slingerland in Trying Not to Try: Ancient China, Modern Science, and the Power of Spontaneity

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