there's a certain kind of "following the dao" philosophy i think i know a lot of people who hold implicitly in some form, which i think if taken sufficiently seriously suggests the bizarre conclusion that literally everything follows the dao automatically *except humans*
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like compared to the rest of the universe we're these alien eldritch entities invading the harmony of the dao, the only things capable of disharmony. it's a weird, depressing, and frankly confusing pov. how did our ability to disharmonize evolve? do any monkeys have it partially?
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if you keep poking at this story it just turns into original sin i think
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the alternative, which is bizarre in a different way, is that everything follows the dao automatically *including* humans, that all of the indignity and suffering and horror of modern industrial civilization and so forth is still somehow harmonious
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This is just two truths doctrine trouble, right?
Something like: you’re already always following the dao, but you can become confused about that, and if you get unconfused, problems are still problems, but it’s ok because you’re following the dao.
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The confusion is because you have to constantly maintain energetically the thing you are running away from, while also concealing from yourself that you are doing this.
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