The Art of Being Free
… The Art of Being Free, a new manifesto from Wendy McElroy. And it’s not only a tremendous addition to the freedom literature, it will, I’m sure, also serve as a powerful recruitment tool. …
… The Art of Being Free, a new manifesto from Wendy McElroy. And it’s not only a tremendous addition to the freedom literature, it will, I’m sure, also serve as a powerful recruitment tool. …
I should have known how good these books would be when I saw John Robb of Global Guerrillas listed among [Daniel] Suarez’s advisers on the Acknowledgements page of Daemon. If you’ve been following Robb the last year or so, you know he writes a lot about resilient communities and darknets. Recently, against the backdrop of disruption of the Icelandic volcano, he stated the two principles of resilience:
Localize production
Virtualize everything else
Those are, perhaps not coincidentally, the central organizing principles of the new society that emerges in Suarez’s two novels. As Robb describes it in his review of Freedom,
it is a fictional account of the next American revolution (AR 2.0) using resilient communities, open source warfare, systems disruption, individual super-empowerment, parasitic predation, hollow nation-states, etc, (all staples of global guerrilla thinking) as central themes. Very cool.
Any regular reader of this blog, anyone on the P2P Research or Open Manufacturing lists, anyone who follows John Robb, Jeff Vail or David Ronfeldt, should run—not walk—to buy both of these books. …
