The ancient Masters
who understood the way of the Tao,
did not educate people, but made them forget.
Smart people are difficult to guide,
because they think they are too clever.
To use cleverness to rule a country,
is to lead the country to ruin.
To avoid cleverness in ruling a country,
is to lead the country to prosperity.
Knowing the two alternatives is a pattern.
Remaining aware of the pattern is a virtue.
This dark and mysterious virtue is profound.
It is opposite our natural inclination,
but leads to harmony with the heavens.
Homo genus has always understood thermodynamic balance.
Life, death, survival, dissipation.
Sapien species has become too clever to survive.
We have engineered an imbalance in entropy.
We have cut down the tress that dissipate the energy of carbon dioxide
To produce the wood we burn to carbon dioxide
To cook the meat from the cow that dissipates the energy of a blade of grass
Grown on the empty forest floor.
We think we can ignore the carbon cycle,
Rush through the resources with time to recycle.
That our cleverness alone can rebalance the equation.
To what end, Fools?
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