Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
A republic requires citizens; entertainment requires only an audience.
– Megan Garber
– Megan Garber
286 / Travelling at the speed of the soul
The Citizens’ House will facilitate and govern a process to distribute retroactive public goods funding, generated from the revenue collected by the network. Citizenship will be conferred by “soulbound” non-transferrable NFTs, and the set of citizens will grow over time as the Optimism community grows. The Citizen House is the vehicle which enables... See more
Introducing the Optimism Collective
“A republic requires citizens; entertainment requires only an audience.” ~ Megan Garber

Official citizens only do capital-P Politics once every few years; Citizens do small-p politics pretty much every day. As Citizens, we are not our votes: we are our ideas, our energy, our resources.
Jon Alexander • Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us
Fundamentally, Citizens are humans who want to shape the world around us for the better, and who claim and where necessary demand the right and the means to do so. To be a Citizen is to care, to take responsibility, to acknowledge one’s inherent power. To be a Citizen is to cultivate meaningful connection to a web of relationships and institutions.
... See moreJon Alexander • Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us
Being a Citizen is a way of life, almost more a verb than a noun. A practice.
Jon Alexander • Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us

A republic requires citizens; entertainment requires only an audience. – Megan Garber