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Digital Renaissance · 56w
I recently came across an open-source book project called Plurality that critiques both libertarianism and technocracy—not just in terms of who holds power, but in how they imagine society. Both red...
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Strong individuals are the basis for voluntary interaction in groups/communities, which lays the ground for voluntary interaction within communities of communities.

Replace aggression with voluntary interaction and you can start calling what you built a society over a sack of barbarians.

It all begins with courageous autonomous individuals.
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Digital Renaissance · 56w
You raise a compelling point—and decentralized democracy doesn’t necessarily disagree with the value of strong, autonomous individuals. But it does challenge the idea that such individuals exist prior to their social context. Instead of starting with the individual as an isolated atom, decentra...