Socratic Seminar 1 Reflection

Today was the first time that I have participated in a socratic
seminar and I think it went well. Although my group made some
mistakes, overall we had a good conversation and different ideas
flowing. I feel as though I contributed to the conversation and made
it grow. I was in the first group and we dicussed page 48:
In the pursuit of learning, every day, something is acquired.
In the pursuit of Tao, every day something is dropped.

Less and less is done
Until non-action is achieved.
When nothing is done, nothing is left undone.

The world is ruled by letting things take their course.
It cannot be ruled by interfering.

My thoughts on this are connected to present day. I believe that Lao
Tse is saying that if Humans never interfered with the way of the
earth, with our technology and constant building of new skyscrapers
and freeways, the world would be a more pure and truthful place. One
idea that was brought up a lot in our seminar was natural disasters
and if we dropped our gained knowledge of how to react to them, we
wouldn't know how to react, and our communities would be wrecked. I
feel that Lao Tse isn't saying that we need to drop that knowledge,
but not even obtain the knowledge of fancy houses and technologies.
Because if you didn't have a house to start with, there would be
nothing to wreck. Along with if there were no cars, there would be no
reason for streets or gas, therefor there wouldn't be global warming
and the earth would continue on how it was supposed to with out the
interruption of humans.