Untitled Anarchism Tao Te Ching (Le Guin Translation) Book 2, Chapter 65
Once upon a time
those who ruled according to the Way
didn’t use it to make people knowing
but to keep them unknowing.[48]
People get hard to manage
when they know too much.
Whoever rules by intellect
is a curse upon the land.
Whoever rules by ignorance
is a blessing on it.
To understand these things
is to have a pattern and a model,
and to understand the pattern and the model
is mysterious power.[49]
Mysterious power
goes deep.
It reaches far.
It follows things back,
clear back to the great oneness.[50]
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