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Chekhov and Tolstoy,

Amor Towles • A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel

Thinking about the Soviet autist who showed how the Sun influences the number of geniuses and political revolution on Planet Earth And was sent to the Gulag by Stalin for going against the Marxist view of history (lol) Real story👇🏻 https://t.co/Tc8SbNLSxY

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The Promise of American Life

Herbert David Croly

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It’s important to strive to do good, and even more important to strive to abstain from evil.

Leo Tolstoy • A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se

Engineer Paul Baran made a number of breakthroughs that are relevant to the public, decentralized technologies to this day, including “message blocks” (a component in blockchain technology) and advocacy for private digital networks via cryptography.

Friends with Benefits (FWB) • A Political History of DAOs

Kropotkin pointed out that Darwin’s own comments regarding the survival value of the social instincts are widely ignored. In The Descent of Man (1871), Darwin described how animal species in which cooperation among individuals replaced competitive struggle were able to secure the best conditions for survival. He implied that, in such cases, the... See more

Gary B. Walls • Just a moment...

Rebecca Solnit, in her stunning book A Paradise Built in Hell, describes how gift economies seem to arise spontaneously in times of disaster.

Robin Wall Kimmerer • The Serviceberry: An Economy of Gifts and Abundance

I heartily accept the motto,—“That government is best which governs least”; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe,—“That government is best which governs not at all”; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will

Henry David Thoreau • Walden (AmazonClassics Edition)

When a State is threatened by serious dangers, the people frequently succeeds in selecting the citizens who are the most able to save