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This thread has to be one of the strangest readings of Wu Wei ever.

Earth's processes just happen, and unfold out of a continuum. They are not governed by human Thought. Do no-Things. They're webs of inter-related relations...not Things. Active passivity. Not conditioned by human Thought. Do. No Things. Relations are all there are and all we have is now!

One can see from the current events that a world made to fit the plans of human Thought placing emphasis on managing Things impoverishes human relations, and is unable to handle changing conditions. Life is transformation.

"Escalate conflict" Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans. What happens when this planned-for singular quality of humans (conflict is merely one aspect and functions connected to a whole host of others (and even then there are so many types of conflict, push-back, responses) doesn't happen?

“The general form of propositions is: This is how things are.” That is the kind of proposition that one repeats to oneself countless times. One thinks that one is tracing the outline of the thing’s nature over and over again, and one is merely tracing round the frame through which we look at it. (Wittgenstein – Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, 4.5):