All About Nothing
ALL ABOUT NOTHING
Long before modern nihilism
Plato spoke of khora,
the receptacle of nothingness
as the existential foundation
of all things shown and known.
Nonsense, the men of Athens said
for we stand firmly on the ground,
to which Socrates replied:
If no space is in and about the ground
how could you or me be found?
(And in China in this axial age
Lao Tzu told skeptical men the same:
The origin of things had no name
but as the nameless eternal Tao
for which nothing could be shown or known.)
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