
In Search of Freedom: Life, Death, and Sovereignty in the Himalaya
My trek through the villages of the Annapurna Circuit brought unexpected insights about what it means to be free.
Explorer 95 textes de fiction timechain, d’économie et de liberté publiés par Konsensus.

My trek through the villages of the Annapurna Circuit brought unexpected insights about what it means to be free.

À vingt-trois ans, j'avais un poste correct, un salaire qui tombait chaque mois et l'impression tenace d'avoir signé pour une vie que je n'avais pas vraiment choisie. Trois livres ont fait voler…

A world without rival nation-states offers the mobile individual no leverage. Competition between jurisdictions is what protects the sovereign individual; a unified global system would strip away his only asset: the ability to leave.

Authority that cannot be refused is not earned but endured. A functioning society requires that citizens retain the right to leave, which disciplines both rulers and markets in ways no other mechanism can replicate.

Have you ever wondered what really drives human behavior? Are we creatures of reason, calmly weighing our choices in pursuit of optimal outcomes, or are we…

Can we ever really own ideas? 🤔…

Date: May 7, 3011 Standard…

‘Big day ahead?’ the security guard at the front desk asked, looking up from his book and gesturing at the extra-large coffee in Ada’s hand…

I was in a grocery store when The Big Slash happened. I was bagging my own groceries at the self-checkout stand, as is the right of…

It’s that kind of crappy day: so cold the rain’s freezing to the windows and the roads are gridlocked. I don’t drive, and sometimes gridlock is…

‘I’ll do it,’ Ada said, stretching out her palm with steely resolve…

By the fifth meeting, no one around the table is real…

Join Mia, a girl longing for a world of love, freedom, and truth, on a thought-provoking journey into the unknown, where she confronts a disturbing future……

My response to 'revolutionary publishers' shilling AI.

Roughly eighty years ago, physicist Enrico Fermi pondered intelligent life beyond ourselves.

I am a noderoid, a half-flesh, half-machine creature harnessed to propagate and store the timechain.

Viktor peeled out of his training gear in the tiny hygiene pod. Then the first dull thud hit the door.

Ricardo Castillo climbed the last few steps to the observation deck of Panama Four.

For money to have meaning it needs to have a relationship to energy.

In a system where money is no longer backed by tangible assets, counterfeiting is everywhere.

Before the ocean and the earth appeared — the face of nature was naught but chaos.

How do we explain Bitcoin? With metaphors. Lots and lots of them. We’re already about a decade and a half into the life of Bitcoin and…

External Memo 263 from the Emerging Civilizations Council (ECC)…

It is not weird that religions have gained a foothold when we realize how improbable each of us is.