Not Saving The World.

I get around, quite a bit, on the internet, trying to discover something, somewhere, pertaining to taoism, that is actually about taoism.
With very limited success.
It would appear that pretty much the entire Western world has no faint clue what taoism is about. Especially those calling themselves "taoists".
What I do see, again and again, are people behaving as-if  they are ever-so-nice, while carrying-on about how "we" should all be "behaving", usually in relation to "saving the world".

There are some key concepts here:
We: Not I, me, what involves my autonomous self, but all of us.
Behaving: Not being real, true, spontaneous or open. To behave is to act out a part.
Saving the world: It needs, apparently, to be saved. By us, of all things. The ones who are so busy wrecking it, to begin with.

I saw a post along these lines, just today, in fact. It was like so many others. Utterly predictable...
We are causing Global Warming.
Global Warming will inevitably result in the deaths of billions of people.
We must act now to avert these deaths.

It went on to describe the guilt felt by the "taoist" writer, to be associated with such a murderous society, and how it was all the fault of Conservatives and Republicans, going on to name the usual names...
The usual left-wing stuff.
But wait a minute: this was a taoist post on a taoist blog. It is this that makes it interesting; and not a little repugnant...

Taoism is: 
Non-interference with the natural unfolding of things.  
If there are too many people, wrecking the ecology, then some - lots - will have to go.
Who knows? You may be one of them. As may I.
Balance:
Neither right, nor left, but somewhere in-between.
Freedom from mind:
The mind is strictly a tool for one's own problem-solving. No problem? No mind.
Freedom from emotion:
Emotion is for children who know no better. Rages, desires, guilt, likes and dislikes. Maturity removes these things. Unless maturity never occurs, as is so often the case, in the West.
Ego-less:
Ego is who you think you are. And you think you're far more important than you really are.
Your opinion is the only way of seeing things. Solve your ego, and you solve yourself.
Good luck.

Taoism is not:
Feeling compelled to fix the world.
Morphing reality into something you think would be better.
Demanding everyone agrees with your opinions.
Acting as-if you are ever-so-nice.
Or acting, at all.