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People who have unlearned how to decide about their own rights on their own evidence become pawns in a world game operated by mega-machines.
Ivan Illich • Tools for Conviviality
In the same way that medieval Venice set the stage for the peoples of Europe to break free of the empire and transition from serfdom to liberty, and from financial slavery to financial sovereignty, today the Bitcoin network is the path to escaping the broken and unsustainable post-1971 political economy.
Sacha Meyers • Bitcoin Is Venice: Essays on the Past and Future of Capitalism
INTRODUCTION
Barry H. Lopez • Of Wolves and Men (Scribner Classics)
the classic work by Hechter 1975),
Gardner Bovingdon • The Uyghurs: Strangers in Their Own Land
Under this model, rights are what governments give, not what citizens take.
Raj Patel • The Value of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy
When we collectively refuse to follow unjust rules, our revolutionary potential is nearly limitless—and we help free other non-Autistic people to live as they desire to as well.
Devon Price • Unmasking for Life: The Autistic Person's Guide to Connecting, Loving, and Living Authentically
In the words of narrator George Manuel, “perpetual debt binds us firmly to the store.”
Astra Taylor • The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart (The CBC Massey Lectures)
Europeans were constantly squabbling for advantage; societies of the Northeast Woodlands, by contrast, guaranteed one another the means to an autonomous life – or at least ensured no man or woman was subordinated to any other.