Minneapolis. January 2026. Lloyd Dobler drops a chapter that refuses to “perform coherence” while the empire insists your eyes are lying.
This is The Tao of Lloyd: a zen-punk mixtape meditation where Lloyd duct-tapes each of the 81 chapters of the Tao Te Ching to the collapse of American empire like a sticky note that says: Be kind. Rewind. Revolt. Meaning: refuse to cooperate with the lie.
In Chapter 22, Lloyd reads the Tao Te Ching’s paradox like a message in a bottle that just washed up on the shore of Minneapolis:
Then he tries to live that teaching in real time: grief that won’t clean itself up, rage that wants certainty, and the question underneath everything—what does wu-wei (not forcing) mean when the machine keeps calling murder “just doing its job”?
This isn’t “five steps to inner peace.” It’s practice that doesn’t gaslight you: breathe, stay present, and choose what you do next—without branding your grief.
Topics: Tao Te Ching Chapter 22, wu-wei, nervous system, propaganda, legitimacy crisis, noncooperation, refusal, late-stage everything.
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