The Cosmic Judgment of Greed Lao-Yang Genesis Cosmology & Natural Cybernetics

Human civilisation is running an obsolete operating system — one whose core code was written millennia ago: maximise the satisfaction of human desire, treat the natural world as an inexhaustible resource bank, measure progress solely by growth, and frame competition and conquest as the default grammar of civilisational interaction. That system once worked. Today, when humanity's technical power is sufficient to alter atmospheric chemistry within decades and to erase millions of years of accumulated biodiversity within a single generation, the same operating system has become civilisation's greatest existential threat. This book takes the Lao-Yang Genesis Cosmology (老-杨创世纪宇宙观) — proposed by the author Charles X. Yang — as its core theoretical framework. It integrates Laozi's two-and-a-half-millennia-old cosmic intuition ('Dao generates One; One generates Two; Two generates Three; Three generates all things' and 'Humanity follows Earth; Earth follows Heaven; Heaven follows Dao; Dao follows Nature') with modern astrophysics, thermodynamics, cybernetics, cognitive science, evolutionary psychology, and complexity theory, constructing a comprehensive Natural Cybernetics critique. The book argues systematically: the root cause of humanity's infinite greed lies in a cognitive error about our true position in the cosmic generative chain. The overlapping distortions of the theological illusion, the civilisational illusion, and the ego illusion have together driven a false cosmology that powers a destructive civilisational model. Greed is not merely immoral — greed is anti-cosmic-order. The Universal Operating System is already issuing corrective signals — climate change, biodiversity collapse, systemic social instability — physical feedback with no moral content, only physical fact. The book proposes Natural Civilisation (自然文明) as the alternative paradigm to Greed Civilisation, founded on three core principles: the System-Nesting Principle (all human activity must remain within the carrying capacity of the Earth's ecological system), the Feedback-Respect Principle (natural feedback signals must be taken seriously), and the Dao-Centric Cognition Principle (civilisation's cognitive framework must shift from the geocentric illusion to the Dao-centric cosmology of the Lao-Yang framework). The book concludes with 'Know Sufficiency, Know Lasting Joy' (知足常乐) as its ultimate answer — not a passive philosophy of resignation but the most precise cognitive expression of cosmic order, the deepest scientific insight into the neural system, and the most serious thermodynamic requirement for civilisational sustainability. Dao follows Nature; Know Sufficiency, Know Lasting Joy: these are the simplest and most profound operating protocols the cosmos has ever offered humanity.