The essays and editorials in this publication are based on these three
premises: First, Daoism is a spiritual philosophy based on non-action.
Second, libertarianism is a political philosophy based on non-action.
In both of these philosophies, non-action means stepping out of the
way and allowing natural laws to proceed unhindered.
The third premise is that societies have, generally speaking,
gone through three stages: an agricultural age, an industrial age, and
the emerging information-service age. Furthermore, no one can
accurately predict what the institutions of the third stage will look
like. Changes will occur as they have in the past--naturally and
spontaneously. But one thing is certain, things will be much different
from the way our society has been structured the last 300 years.
Assuredly, our present national and state governments will
continue to try to solve a myriad of problems until the lid blows off
the pressure cooker, and we experience a sudden readjustment.
What, then, should our actions be in the meantime? We
should identify with the universe, realign ourselves with the proper
relationship between natural rights and the role of government, and
prepare ourselves to step forward and fill the gap left when our
present political structures collapse.