Govern your country with integrity,
Weapons of war can be used with great cunning,
but loyalty is only won by not-doing.
How do I know the way things are?
By these:
The more prohibitions you make,
the poorer people will be.
The more weapons you possess,
the greater the chaos in your country.
The more knowledge that is acquired,
the stranger the world will become.
The more laws that you make,
the greater the number of criminals.
Therefore the Master says:
I do nothing,
and people become good by themselves.
I seek peace,
and people take care of their own problems.
I do not meddle in their personal lives,
and the people become prosperous.
I let go of all my desires,
and the people return to the Uncarved Block.
Lao Tsu wrote universally of the human tragedy.
He warned of governments out of control.
He warned of individuals who meddle in the natural order.
The more human society fights the law of thermodynamics
The further we go astray
The more we try to explain a simple concept
The more unfathomable it becomes.
It is better not to participate in
Government, Greed, Soapboxes, Excess, and Intellectual Vanity.
It is better to understand life as a dissipative function
And participate in reality.
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