The Slipperiest Concept There Is

There's a book by a guy named Masanobu Fukuoka called The One Straw Revolution which elaborates one of slipperiest concepts there is: "not do". In his book, the concept applies to gardening and farming. Basically the farmer in that mode attempts to follow the pattern of nature by not interfering with it. I think this concept is akin to the aim of philosophy.

A purely rationalistic inquiry into the nature of the universe epitomized by the moderns' obsession with science and math is a dead end. Even worse it traps people in a low fidelity model of reality, and then even worse than that is the technocratic totalitarian world where man is forced to live according to the models of sophists like economists.

The prior post about the Goa'uld hints at what philosophy can be. It can allow man to re-integrate with the natural world and be whole and complete, that is, he can adopt an understanding from nature in nature's terms. The forces that seem to oppose his desires, such as death and decay or the inertia of matter are, in fact, what define the universe and makes his life possible in the first place. With a mind that comprehends the truth of nature, a man in a sense is nature. He is as just, good, and prosperous as can be.

The model of the "city on the hill" is a fundamentally flawed model compared to the garden of eden. Man is not fallen because nature is not fallen.