Great indeed
is the disorder produced in the world
by the love of knowledge.
From the time of the three dynasties downwards it has been so.

The plain and honest-minded people are neglected,
and the plausible representations of restless spirits
received with pleasure;

the quiet and unexciting method of non-action is put away,
and pleasure taken in ideas garrulously expressed.

It is this garrulity of speech
which puts the world in disorder.

—Zhuangzi, Cutting Open Stachels trans. by James Legge

My mind returned to that old origin story in the book of Genesis.  The tale depicting humankind placed in a garden of nature that features a single tree as the focus of attention.  The object of interest is called: the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.  What an infinitely rich symbol, an idea which is deep enough and wide enough to capture all of our enterprises, displayed in splendor and terror.  Knowledge of good and of evil.  Knowledge is for use, as Aristotle well knew.  Therein lies the responsibility.  How many ways one may lose oneself…

I think of Fox News, and of Tucker Carlson a pundit which the network featured for so long.  Garrulity of speech and world in disorder.  Such capacious terms, tightly related…

By contrast: quiet and unexciting, method of non-action.

Like the produce of Fall harvest, ripening slowly and silently, forms of life, delicate colors.