It would be a decentralized society in which goods are produced and shared in common with the help of appropriate technology. Though there are machines that can work ten to a hundred times faster than man, they are not needed. The people take death seriously and do not travel far. Though they have boats and carriages, no one uses them. Though they have armour and weapons, no one displays them.
Men return to the knotting of rope in place of writing.
His work consists of arguments interspersed with anecdotes and parables which explore the nature of the Tao, the great organic process of which man is a part. It is not addressed to any particular ruler. Like the Tao te ching, it rejects all forms of government and celebrates the free existence of the self-determining individual. When pleased, they rub their necks together. When angry, they turn round and kick up their heels at each other.