Yep. Zenarchy is actually a natural rights/natural law doctrine. And wu wei is about acting in accord with the tao, which can be seen as living a life harmonious with natural rights and the nonaggression principle. But the perspective is different than the fully Western one. It also includes a sensible place for spontaneous order. Creative order and creative disorder are celebrated--destructive order (i.e. totalitarianism, central planning, etc) and destructive disorder (bellum omnium contra omnes) are abhorred.Wolter wrote:It's hyperrational.eumaas wrote:Read the Principia Discordia (and read it closely) and then read Zenarchy. You'll have an entirely different understanding.dpwolf wrote:I'm stuck on Socrates/Logicians v. Phaedrus/Sophists. It's easy to break something down by logic but it's much more difficult to create a lasting theory, regime or other structure. Intellect, words, numbers and logic are merely knives; they need direction. From my extremely abbreviated investigation and limited understanding of Discord and Zenarchy, and anarchy, they all seem focused upon joking irrational critiques, which are okay, but generally upon breaking things down rather than finding (or asserting) a solution.eumaas wrote:Zenarchy
"To choose order over disorder, or disorder over order, is to accept a trip composed of both the creative and the destructive. But to choose the creative over the destructive is an all-creative trip composed of both order and disorder. To accomplish this, one need only accept creative disorder along with, and equal to, creative order, and also willing to reject destructive order as an undesirable equal to destructive disorder."
- The Principia Discordia
EDIT: I suppose you could call it "creativism"--the emphasis on disorder is a corrective one. It's deeper than mere chaos, though.