The Sovereign Individual thesis is playing out Human and economic capital will flow to where it can be most sovereign Tennessee is leading the way View article →

Reading one book on a subject should make you realize how may things you were ignorant of before reading it. Reading ten books on a subject should both fill in the gaps of your ignorance while making it more clear what you are truly ignorant about. Reading one hundred books on a subject you were previously completely ignorant of should enlighten you about all the things we as a species are ignorant of. Keep reading, thinking critically, and working towards making our ignorance marginally less. This is meant as a White Pill. Don’t take it if you think it’s a Black Pill.

“The time will come when diligent research over long periods will bring to light things which now lie hidden. A single lifetime, even though entirely devoted to the sky, would not be enough for the investigation of so vast a subject ... And so this knowledge will be unfolded only through long successive ages. There will come a time when our descendants will be amazed that we did not know things that are so plain to them ... Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come, when memory of us will have been effaced. Our universe is a sorry little affair unless it has in it something for every age to investigate... Nature does not reveal her mysteries once and for all.” -Seneca, Natural Questions, Book 7, 1st Century

I haven’t been on any media, news, chats, or SM in weeks. It’s been great. But then a friend told me about Charlie. While I didn’t agree with him on everything, I was glad someone was pushing back against the left on campuses and the youth was standing up against the one sided dogma that’s been shoved down societies throat for decades. Anyone having a tough time with all this… go outside and look at the moon. That’s the same moon humans have been looking at for millennia. Tragic events happen and they’re out of our control. But so much good happened today in a million places that will go unnoticed and untalked about. I’m sure each of you did some good today and all that outweighs this tragic act. Life will continue on just as the moon will continue to rotate around the earth. We are here to push forward a better future for our kids to live in. Keep building and fighting for that future. There will be bad days and there will be setbacks. But we will make the world a better place. One day at a time. One good act at a time. Do what you can to make your community better. That’s what Charlie would have wanted.

On dealing with death in the middle of a battle: “They will mourn later. For now it is enough they know their brothers would smile to see them living. So they smile for their brothers, for they had a good death. Later they will miss them. Later they will mourn.” - Light Bringer, by Pierce Brown

I truly hope Boomers are living their American Dream It’s time for our generation to build ours

“If you wish to be repaired, you must first be broken.” The Eleventh Understanding from The Path to the Vale Light Bringer by Pierce Brown A Red Rising Novel

“We achieve perfection first by acknowledging our failures. We increase understanding first by recognizing our ignorance.” The Eighth Understanding from The Path to the Vale Light Bringer by Pierce Brown A Red Rising Novel

The only thing humans are entitled to is death Everything else is either earned or stolen

It is not that the government is blackmailed by criminal organizations or intelligence agencies It is not that intelligence agencies and criminal organizations control the government Portions of them are all the same entity and different people or groups of people are trying to control the chessboard and levers of power But the levers of power are losing their grip on society New power bases are being established right under their nose While they fight for scraps of a dying carcass, the future is being built, one that will reshape the next age of humanity

Matter, how tiny my share Time, how brief my allotment Fate, how small my roll to play Self, all that can be mastered - Virginia Au Augustus, Dark Age by Pierce Brown

“We may not ever be welcomed back. “There's nothing worse for a soldier to imagine-that there will be no home to return to once the violence is over, no way to become the men we want to be. Instead, we’re trapped in these violent guises, guises we only ever had the courage to don because of how much we love our home. “Is this all we'll ever be?” - Darrow, Iron Gold by Pierce Brown

Thanks for sharing. We all grow and learn from our experiences. At least, we should grow and learn from them.

“It’s my duty as a free man to read so I’m not blind, being led around by my nose.” - Dancer, Iron Gold by Pierce Brown

“Our worlds made us what we are, and all this pain we suffer is to fix the folly of those who came before, who shaped the world in their image and left us the ruin of their feast.” - Darrow, Morning Star by Pierce Brown

Your task is not to foresee the future, but enable it. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“War is not monstrous for making corpses of men so much as it is for making machines of them. And woe to those who have no use in war except to feed the machines.” - Pierce Brown, Morning Star

“The real problem of humanity is the following: We have Paleolitic emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology. And it is terrifically dangerous.” —Edward O. Wilson Understanding this and solving for the problems it creates is noble work. If you’re reading this on nostr, you’re part of the solution.

What a great time to be a man