From Barack Obama’s 2008 “Hope” posters to Donald Trump’s MAGA hats, Black Lives Matter yard signs to Lance Armstrong’s Livestrong bracelets, we, too, can proactively create cultural products that act as receipts of identity and inspire people to act by listening to the community and understanding what makes it tick.

The purpose of activism and art, or at least of mine, is to make a world in which people are producers of meaning, not consumers, and writing this book I now see how this is connected to the politics of hope and to those revolutionary days that are the days of creation of the world. Decentralization and direct democracy could, in one definition, be

Game Theory had recharged us somewhat, especially since we felt that we were making our music for a label that unconditionally supported our vision. As we started to collect material, it became apparent that we were headed in an explicitly political direction. It would have been hard to avoid it, frankly. It was the end of 2007, and we were shootin