Posted by Gabriele Guenther on July 13, 1999 at 15:43:13:
In Reply to: The Connatic as the perfect Taoist posted by Martin G. on July 13, 1999 at 15:37:07:
Try reading "Geta", aka "Courtship Rite", by Donald Kingsbury also on this subject (politics, government and war) - brilliant book!
One small note of dissonance: in "The Faceless Man", Jack Vance discusses the limits of that approach; where the Faceless Man only enforces the rules the people make themselves, he ends up enforcing some very nasty and unjustifiable things.