Elements of Freeorder
Version 0.05 — 27 October 2026
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Those who wish to accelerate the emergence of freeorder cannot permanently leave the ownership of the future to those who do not.
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The Purpose of Elements of Freeorder
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To provide a map of the continually renewed path between savagery and civilization. To make clear what must be widely known and done to prevent descent into savagery and what must be known and done to reverse such descent and replace it with the revival of civilizations.
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Use two definitions of “civilization”: 1) Churchill’s; 2) Explorer-centric — explain how they are related.
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Method
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Use of words — affects epistemology
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Glossary of Freeorder — link will be provided
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Starting Point
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What we care about . why .
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All has to do with the image of an ascending double helix, one strand representing individuals, and the second strand representing culture, or the whole social order.
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The Emergence of Freeorder (architecture, path, symbols)
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freeorder (process, internal & external) —> Freeorder (social outcome).
Path: Diaspora —> Concentration —> Emergence …
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As the honest exile themselves from failing, dishonest, structures of relationships (institutions) they find each other and begin to build honest new ventures. Forges of every type accelerate this process.
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At all points the process needs catalysts and accelerants — a job for thousands of independent, increasingly networked, ∮forge.
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Symbology for the architecture of the Emergence of Freeorder
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At the heart of the Emergence are millions of ⦰forge (silent forges) made possible by the investment of ∮forge; and, in some cases, by investment in ⥮forge (aligning forges).
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Kinds of Forge (FreeORderGEnerator): All essential for the Emergence: ∅forge, ⥮forge, ∮forge
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∅ Silent — ∅forge
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Operating within a space indicated by few words: quest, mutual aid, honesty, spontaneous order, emergent. Understanding freeorder happens through use of tools (ways of doing) not by words.
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⥮ Aligning (aligned beyond agreement) — ⥮forge
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The archipelago of freeorder action and think tanks falls into this category. Examples: Foundation for Economic Education, Atlas Network, Sand Country Foundation, Open the Books, FIRE, Future of Freedom Foundation, hundreds of others …
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∮ Integrating — ∮forge (read as “integrating forge”). Examples: Pattern Research, Denver; The Antigua Forum, …?
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The architecture of the emergent freeorder network
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∮ - single ∮forge - a venture, a listening post, run by an individual or small group
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∯ - connected ∮forges - clusters (not necessarily geographic) in which some ∮forge are known to each other
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∰ - emergent world of many ∮forges - the entire freeorder network — although most do not know of each other nevertheless they mutually reinforce and sum to a global learning and action network
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Examples: Robert W. Malone; Pierre Kory; participants in Mont Pelerin 1947.
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Virtues, i.e. strengths, what is needed for “can do”
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Collecting all occurrences of freeorder symbols from notes:
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10/23/26 starting with something from 6/5/24
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The three elements of Freeorder: quest, design, build.
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∅forge, ⥮forge, ∮forge — three types of forges, 1) listen, watch only; 2) ventures working within an explicit freeorder context; 3) build world net of ∮forge, invest, gain/loss, reinvest.
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The path of emergence [modifications made: 10/23/26]:
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∅forge —> ⥮forge —> ∮forge
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“pforge” expands (by text replacement) to “∅forge —> ⥮forge —> ∮forge”
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Integrating forge = ∮forge
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Aligning forge = ⥮forge
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Silent forge = ∅forge
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∅ is “empty set” or in case of forge meaning “no stated freeorder content”.
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Is there an intermediary between ONP and the ∮forge? If ONP (Open Network Post) is to be kept pure there must be an intermediary. A focusing forge? A collimating forge (Corske), an aligning forge, a dawning forge? An awakening forge?!!! Yes - when the principles tacitly embedded in ONP began to be realized as something abstract but widely important. What should be the symbol for “awakening” as in xforge, where x is a symbol? Maybe a sun icon?
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All my life I have had an intense focus on liberty. I cannot shake it in order to do “sensible” things. Almost like a mathematician fascinated by a conceptual space of no clear utility. Until someday, perhaps, that space becomes a key to survival. Most people with such an obsession produce “works” along the way. What have I produced? A working Open Network Listening Post, and an ∮forge.
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Government fixing economy is like adding wheels to a horse. The complex organic miracle of the thing being improved is not seen; but the ultimately destructive work of the engineer is admired.
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∅forge —> ⥮forge —> ∮forge
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Freeorder is produced by the deliberate imposition of limits with intent to allow forces to operate to produce a spontaneous order the emergence of which would otherwise be prevented.
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We are interested in one kind of pattern, very fundamental to the well-being of everyone. All those patterns have to do with the emergence of Freeorder. Each micro-pattern plays a part in the development of macro-patterns, in a hierarchy of patterns culminating in one that allows us to perceive the emergence of a new world-pervading form of social order.
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Posted this to Socrates Garden: “An economics based on things visible only by introspection is capable of describing endless fine grained discovery processes that generate the events eventually recorded as historical data that microeconomics and macroeconomics then attempt to digest, and by which the governors of the world hope to be guided in their attempts to drive the world, while reliant on rear view mirrors.”
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Start talking about freeorder with the idea of expectation. All future patterns of human activity arise from individual expectations. People imagine the next minute, hour, day, week, month, year, decade, life era, lifetime, generation, generations, centuries, millennia. People have different planning horizons . time wrapping imagination . who can imagine anything but tomorrow? Who plans for 1,000 years? The Long Now Foundation … Expectations drive everything . stability of expectations . planting a woodlot or orchard . provision for replacing the oak beams of the Oxford dining hall . the man who planted trees . bronze doors . video games (short time spans) . micro-plans harmonious with or clashing with macro-plans . expectations about the actions of others (based on what) . expectations about the expectations of others with regard to oneself (black man walking through streets of a hostile white neighborhood thinking about what the local observers imagine his expectations to be) . the mistake of mirroring others as self (having little understanding of human variation) . yes, they are all like you - but in an extremely abstract sense: the details within likeness may vary sufficiently to become life or death issues (Yon’s sniper and his trees). ….. ∮forge as time-span harmonizers . how understand the implications for long-term of short-term social patterns of short-term individual attention differences? ….. indwelling all timespans . individual time horizons, edges in time, the power of macro-expectations to create a field morphing micro-expectations into new patterns . someone who has rarely considered more than a day at a time suddenly having a glimpse of er effect on a thousand years (by an experience religious or aesthetic … a slave hearing Frederick Douglass speak of a future of sovereign black people . such a lightening bolt in imagination can transform a life . Calvin hearing the Chopin Polonaise one summer afternoon . the person who sat down next to that record player was not the person who stood up a few minutes later …
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The intent of the energetic cloud freeorder is to massively shift expectations of entire populations. The word is rich with hints of things to come. From whence does an individual expect er good? From authority or from mutual aid? From well-formed expectations or from unknowable clouds of emergence driven by creative energies released from the bonds of commands issued and enforced by people of limited understanding? How do individuals imagine the sources of their future well-being? from the promises of a perpetual parent? from a chaotic world of sovereigns each seeking their own well being by serving others?
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From what varied sources in imagination does a people imagine their future good or ill? What is the internal image of sources of good, of bad? What affects those images? changes them? stories told in detail or in symbolic forms. The difference between music that revolves endlessly around a static center and music that starts with simple elements and goes somewhere?
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One way to understand the purpose behind the introduction of the word freeorder: “Enough of this. We will stop it. For good.” How: by a massive deep change in expectations, hence in planning, hence in actions, hence in emergence of new social patterns. It’s what Rand and Objectivists intended by Objectivism, but Freeorder is deeper and more inclusive, relying not on conclusions held but on quest patterns lived.
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I am loyal to the style of integral boldly imaginative quest, but not to any set of fixed conclusions. This is another way to paraphrase Karl Popper.
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And will argue for understanding the spontaneous order that when left to operate produces unimaginable goods and good.
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Amidst all that good do not remove or limit opportunities to reduce suffering, do not channel all that intent into a single dominant pattern of action that closes down innovation and the creation of alternatives.
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The most urgent task of humanity is to free entrepreneurial animated compassion, to allow the formation of unforeseen networks implementing previously unimagined paths to all kinds of healing.
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On a totally different (possibly related) line of thought: beware of people who pay others to create problems they themselves are being paid to fix.
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How wonderful the line in Atlas where Galt answers the question, “What can we do for you?” with “Get out of my way.”
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Every solution generates new problems - endlessly. Some of the new problems may threaten the existence of civilization. Is that reason to stop innovation and seek a culture in which old solutions continuously produce costs that can willingly be paid?
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This went into ‘Threads” today as a comment to an item on the Wash Park Walk (in Elements):
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I am enthusiastic about this project! In the long-term strategy for the emergence of freeorder this kind of thing is of deep importance. It’s good to have such a fine evolving model to point to in “Threads”. All the gears won’t mesh in the Emergence machine until we get back to establishing Open Network Listening Posts. Our Denver office was a physical prototype, but there need not be actual physical presence although it is excellent to have that (it can be intermittent, as in the pop-up presence of local listening posts hosted by participants in the emerging network). Between ∮forge, such as I am running now, and community building projects such as Pat and team are working on there is an enormous unfilled gap. And all the missing wheels, belts, motors, and gears that are missing makes the emergence run at the speed of molasses flowing down a slight grade. There is enormous potential for acceleration and catalysis. Newly earned and invested wealth will help. -ls
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Pertinent to the above point about the acceleration of Emergence: “Those who wish to accelerate the emergence of freeorder cannot permanently leave the ownership of the future to those who do not.”—the central idea of the emergent Freeorder Capital Commons network (a network forever without a controlling or defining center, although there may be many GitHub-like open source projects contributing to it).
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There is a connection between the production of new wealth and the transmission of the essentials of freeorder (critical thought+creativity+liberty)
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🌱 freeorder (process) —> Freeorder (outcomes)
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Quest is the engine that pulls the entire train of thought about freeorder. Quest is the reason for all of it, so it’s the first word in the definition:
freeorder is quest-enabling balances among spontaneous and designed orders.
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Quest, looking back in time can be seen as the story of an emergent pattern of patterns of explorations, and looking forward, it’s an active devotion to continuing the story. Karl Popper’s autobiography is titled Unended Quest.
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freeorder depends on limits, imagination, and conjectures put to trial.
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Resonance is the expectation of a flow in time of periods characterized by complete absorption in action combining curiosity, wonder, sensitivity, intensity, and integrity.
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If resonance is the end freeorder is the means.
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The path from native, to apprentice, to master explorer entails an increase in resonance arising from strengthening confidence in freeorder process.
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For some, strong resonance keeps life interesting and worthwhile even when happiness is hard to claim. For some, resonance is an essential component of durable happiness.
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Questions
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Why does the word freeorder exist?
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Because someone decided to make a word to name something that had for too long been nameless.
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That decision was supported by the conviction that things without name receive little attention and inspire little action.
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Suppose you keep saying over and over: “Look at this! It’s important!” and when someone asks you what “this’ is you must answer, every time, with many words to describe it properly. Eventually you realize that this is a waste of time, and that the thing can be named and thereafter referred to with a single word.
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Origins and a Path (a chain of whys and hows)
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Start with a recognition:
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Understand danger
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Discover tools
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Form Conjecture
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Decide Method
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freeorder defined, i.e. a specific use of the word is described
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freeorder is quest-enabling balance among spontaneous and designed orders.
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Any freeordered entity may be composed of many subsidiary freeordered entities.
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Although the vision and concept of freeorder may come to matter to only a few it can be hoped that many will benefit from the understanding and actions of those few.
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Freeorder Emergence: “Freeorder Bridge 0.95” blended with the styles of different writers
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Freeorder Bridge: Leif Smith + J.R.R. Tolkien, as blended by Perplexity.ai
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In an age when many grew weary and hearts were hemmed about by heavy walls of law and custom, there arose a quiet counsel among wanderers and wise folk, that a new ordering of the world must be sought—a freeorder, in which freedom and form walk side by side as comrades, and not as foes.
They spoke first of naming this thing rightly, for in all tongues it had gone half-seen and half-said: the fit mingling of what is designed with what arises unbidden, of craft and of chance, so that each person might follow a road of their own choosing, yet find along it good company, fair dealing, and ways to mend what is marred. Out of this naming there grew a lore that turned from the counting of masses and abstractions to the tale of single lives, of the choices of women and men, their learning, and the correction of their own errors, as a gardener tends each tree and does not speak only of “the forest.”
Then were founded certain houses of experiment, called forges, where folk of many lands gathered as both seekers and stewards, bearing small hoards of gold, time, and wit, to be ventured upon untried works. In these halls each new work was held to be but a guess—a bright conjecture set upon the anvil of the world—to be proved or broken, and, whether in triumph or in failure, to yield clear lessons to all who took part. Many such forges were bound together by living networks, like roads and rider-posts between distant cities, so that tidings of success and ruin, of folly and newfound wisdom, ran swiftly through the land and none were left to wander in ignorance alone.
As seasons turned, minstrels, painters, and tellers of great tales began to weave these stirrings into song and story, until word went quietly from hearth to hearth that “some fair and unexpected good is afoot,” though few yet could name it. From their work there spread an intuition, deep as the memory of older ages, that the world herself was bending toward a more generous pattern, and that to live was not only to endure, but to adventure. Meanwhile, the high towers of rule and law were slowly taught humility: realms that had once grasped all power in mailed fists began to loosen their hold, giving up shards of sovereignty, and entering into open contest as mere stewards and keepers among many, bound by reason, by the proofs of deed and outcome, and by the stern accounting of loss and gain.
So the long labor was set: to endure in many cycles of venture and learning, of sowing and reaping, through countless forges and far-flung circles of companions, until at last a deeper pattern—called by␌some the Emergence—should be plain to the eyes of even the most cautious. And in that time to come, if
the work held true, people in many lands would wake to lives shaped not by command and fear, but by subjectively rewarding adventures: roads chosen freely, rich in peril and wonder, in which tolerance among strangers, a wide-scattered compassion, and ever-mending institutions would together uphold a freeorder that grows, shifts, and improves, as living things do, from age to age.
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Freeorder Bridge: Leif Smith + Jenny Uglow (author of The Lunar Men), as blended by Perplexity.ai
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Freeorder Bridge, seen from a little distance, is less an engineering plan than the slow, patient sketch of a civilization in which people are free to shape lives of adventure without being drafted into other people’s schemes. It traces how, over centuries, inquiry and enterprise have chipped away at dogma, so that limits discovered in logic, experiment, and economic loss can guide the emergence of social patterns no one can fully design yet all can help to improve. The name “freeorder” is offered to hold this intuition in a single word: the discovery that freedom, rightly limited, can give rise to more humane order than any blueprint enforced from above.
At the heart of the vision is a change in how people think about knowledge and society: away from collectivist abstractions and toward the felt purposes, judgments, and experiments of individual persons. Advances in the physical sciences, from Newton onward, and in the human sciences, through methodological subjectivism and the understanding of markets as discovery processes, become milestones in this shift. Together they suggest that conjecture, refutation, and the acceptance of error are not technical niceties but conditions for a flourishing common life.
From this follows a strategy that is intentionally modest in each step yet audacious in its accumulation. It calls for ventures that act as “freeorder generators,” places where people gather to listen at the edge of the possible, to sponsor experiments in living, thinking, and making that test new balances between designed and spontaneous orders. These ventures, in turn, are supported by “integrating forges,” groups of learner-investors who treat each commitment of capital as a hypothesis, expecting some failures, and using each one as a source of shared learning rather than shame.
Over time, many such forges, loosely linked, begin to form a pattern larger than any individual project can see. Portfolios come to resemble pointillist canvases: thousands of small, distinct strokes that only gradually reveal an emerging image of more generous and resilient ways of living. Artists and storytellers notice, and as they work with the material of these experiments, a quiet recognition spreads that something good is taking shape in the world—tentative, fallible, yet unmistakably hopeful.
The political and legal implications unfold just as slowly. As people grow used to relying on networks of ventures and forges, it becomes easier to imagine governments not as owners but as constrained providers—minimally armed competitors in the art of governance, bound by the same facts, feedback, and financial limits that discipline other institutions. In such a world, freeorder is not an end state but an ongoing “Emergence,” a season like spring, returning again and again, in which individuals across the earth learn to fashion, and refashion, subjectively rewarding adventures with cosmopolitan tolerance and a quietly distributed compassion.
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Freeorder Bridge: Leif Smith + Alfred Tennyson (“Ulysses”), as blended by Perplexity.ai
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It is not too late to seek new worlds,
Though weary with the failures of an age,
To name the nameless freedom, and to forge
An order born of choosing, test, and change.
To strive, to seek a balance ever new
Between designs we plan and forms that rise
Unbidden from the marketplace of minds,
All disciplined by loss, and fact, and trial.
Come, let us call it freeorder, and turn
From dogmas propped by force, from systems closed,
To living networks, ventures that will learn
By daring much, and bearing their own cost.
There shall be forges, listening at the edge,
Where questioners and doers meet as one;
Learner-investors, scattering seeds of quest,
Each stake a guess, each failure kindling sight.
Not to sit idly telling what should be,
But to endow a thousand different hands
To try, refute, re-shape, and try once more,
While news of every outcome courses back.
And over all, a subtle pattern grows—
A hidden likeness binding scattered acts—
As stories, paintings, songs, and whispered hopes
Declare: “Some quiet good is taking form.”
States, feeling limits pressing from without,
Shall learn to yield and share their ancient claims,
Competing, thinly armed, to guard the peace
And sell their shifting crafts of law and rule.
So shall there rise a people long unchained,
Who find from youth to age a fitted path
From apprentice of adventure to its master,
Their labor tuned to loves they choose themselves.
This is our task: to labor, not to rest;
To knit the ventures, arts, and capitals
Into a living web of tested forms,
Till Emergence stands where chaos stood before.
Though much is lost, much abides; and though we are not now
That strength which built the empires of command,
We are one equal temper of bold minds,
Made strong by long reflection, loss, and hope.
To shape freeorder in this darkening time,
To light a way for lives of daring joy—
To strive, to seek, to find, and, finding, learn,
Not to yield the world to fear again.
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Freeorder Bridge: Leif Smith + Czikszentmihalyi, as blended by Perplexity.ai
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Freeorder Bridge describes how human beings can transform lives of anxiety and fragmentation into lives of deep engagement, where work, learning, and relationship form a continuous adventure of meaning.
In times of confusion we move as if along a restless shoreline, drawn toward a distant coast of peace, creativity, and mutual respect, yet lacking a way to cross. The bridge imagined here is not only an engineering metaphor but a psychology of development: it names the structures that allow people to use their full capacities for curiosity, imagination, thought, and collaboration without being made instruments of purposes they did not choose. To see this possibility clearly, we give it a name: freeorder—the ongoing search for balances between designed institutions and spontaneous interactions that best sustain exploratory, self-directed lives.
At the heart of freeorder lies a paradox familiar from the study of flow: the right kinds of limits are not constraints on life but channels through which attention, energy, and skill can reach extraordinary intensity. In complex physical, intellectual, and social systems, carefully drawn boundaries help spontaneous orders form that no planner could design in detail, yet that serve human purposes better than rigid, unfalsifiable schemes enforced from above. Under freeorder, rules and frameworks are judged by how well they support cycles of conjecture, experimentation, feedback, and error correction, rather than by claims of infallibility. The aim is a culture in which people can risk, learn, and revise without fear of predation, so that producers may use, share, or exchange the fruits of their work as they judge best.
The bridge itself can be envisioned as a sequence of structures that together sustain such lives of optimal experience. The anchors are the deep motives of human existence: on one shore, the need for belonging, tradition, and solidarity; on the other, the urge toward radical, personally meaningful exploration and extreme individuality. Their tension is not a problem to be abolished but a source of energy to be managed, much as the tension between challenge and skill creates the conditions of flow. Resting on these anchors are piers of hard-won knowledge: centuries of attempts, many discarded for failing the tests of logic, coherence, and contact with reality, punctuated by landmarks such as Newton’s Principia and Mises’ Human Action.
From these foundations rise towers built by earlier and later responses to social problems: first, movements that tried to engineer collective welfare, then ventures grounded in methodological subjectivism and in the insight that markets are discovery processes. These newer ventures treat society as a vast field of experiments in which individuals and organizations propose ways to coordinate knowledge, values, and action. They invite people into patterns of work where the experience of learning and contributing can itself be rewarding, not merely a means to external rewards.
Spanning between anchors and towers are the catenary cables, woven from countless “freeorder generators” or forges. Each forge is a venture that serves simultaneously as a place of practice, a listening post at the edge of emerging possibilities, and a node in a growing network. Like strands of steel gathered into a single cable, these initiatives become much stronger together than they could ever be alone; their shared philosophy links art, capital, and inquiry into a resilient pattern. The result is an ecosystem where people can try new forms of collaboration and governance with enough safety and feedback to keep learning.
From the catenaries hang vertical cables: individual investments and projects that test particular ideas about products, services, institutions, or narratives. Up and down these lines flows continuous information about the fit between vision and reality, about which patterns lead to growth in skill, trust, and joy, and which dissolve under pressure. Each success reveals a new way to structure meaningful action; each failure, if interpreted well, deepens collective understanding and refines the challenges at hand. Portfolios of such experiments, scattered like points on a vast canvas, slowly reveal higher-level patterns that artists, storytellers, and theorists can render visible to everyone.
Laid upon this invisible architecture is the roadway: the concrete paths along which millions travel from constrained, reactive lives toward more conscious, self-authored ones. On this roadway, people find tools, communities, and stepwise paths from apprentice explorer to master of a chosen craft or calling. Social frameworks of law and governance gradually evolve as governments relinquish absolute authority and become minimally armed competitors in providing governance services, subject to the same tests of performance and consent as any other institution. The resulting peace, grounded in distributed choice and responsibility, quiets the conditions that feed war and domination.
As the bridge fills with travelers, integrating forges begin to act like social gyroscopes, helping to maintain stability without freezing growth. They preserve working patterns and institutions during upheaval, not by resisting change but by continuously learning which equilibria still support human flourishing. People who cross and recross the span cultivate habits of cosmopolitan tolerance and distributed compassion, learning to move freely between commitments to community and␌commitments to individual quest. Life becomes a series of crossings in which challenge is never absent but is increasingly experienced as the very texture of a worthwhile existence.
Viewed from above, the long unfolding of these developments appears as a single, deep pattern of change—an Emergence driven by shared commitment to exploratory lives. Independent but interconnected forges accumulate practical and theoretical knowledge sufficient to complete and maintain the bridge. In time, the word freeorder may carry the same resonance as the word spring spoken into the depths of winter: a compact signal of justified hope that a new season of growth is on its way. The continuing task is to gather in places—real and symbolic, like the Library of Perinel—to ask together, with curiosity rather than fear: what now, and what next, in the ongoing design of a world fit for adventurous minds.
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What of Leif’s was used by Perplexity.ai to produce the blends shown above:
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• 1. Freeorder-Bridge-0.95.pdf
• 2. Freeorder-Bridge-Summary-Essence-of-Strategy.docx
• 3. Courage to be utopian.pages.pdf
• 4. Freeorder – Tucker, Emulsification, Republic of Capital, Gardens.docx
• 5. Ideas_2003-01-23 to 2026-03-21.txt
• 6. 1994-2002 Outlines.txt
• 7. 261t1_liberation-basati.pdf
• 8. The Live and Let Live Movement 0.6.2 -leif.docx
• 9. Thoughts on Wizards.pdf
• 10. What is to be done.pdf
• 11. Weavers of Freeorder.pdf
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Use of Words: Careful linking of words to not-words (~words) is fundamental
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The Problem with Words
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Essential words can vanish into obscurantist fog.
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Example:
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It’s useful to have a word to name a condition of life where no person has need to fear physical confinement or harm inflicted upon them by another person. Excepting, of course, for the force needed to maintain respect for boundaries of body and property. A very simple thing to name, isn’t it. Suppose we choose the word, “freedom”. For years discussion goes along well. We are clear about what we are talking about when we say “freedom”. But, eventually, new parties to the discussion tell us that we are not using the correct definition of “freedom”, and that from now on we will use the word to mean something like “the ability of people to acquire the necessities of life.” Because, and this is evident, isn’t it, without that ability a person can do nothing. Now we are left in a situation where we no longer have a word to talk about what is being violated when an agent of a state threatens confinement or harm should someone not follow a command having nothing to do with the defense of person or property.
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This vanishing of meanings can be deliberate, because persons intent on establishing an apparatus of coercion find it helpful that the potentially coerced lose the use of a word that names the conditions they prefer.
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In Elements, we adopt a method of naming that is resistant to such vanishing of essential words.
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The Use of Words
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A designed word order can be a tool for exploring a new pattern.
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The words we make will allow discourse on the elements of freeorder.
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The discourse will build and slowly reveal a way of talking about about freeorder,
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freeorder is rarely noticed because what is unnamed tends to non-existence.
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Words are marks on surfaces or vibrations in a medium.
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Words affect what we imagine, think, and do.
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We will decide how to use and limit each word in the discourse.
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Use of the word will not change unless the change is deliberate, clear, and memorable.
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Extended explanation (edited from an input to Perplexity.ai) — MetaIsics
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Epistemological and Metaphysical foundations of Freeorder.
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Sovereign naming is fundamental. Language shapes awareness and the topology of perceived opportunity. Accept the words given to you with their typical meanings and you are wrapped into how things are and cannot access the capacity to imagine how things might become.
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To the end of developing a sovereign internal language, meant for use by self rather than for communicating to others, although that may follow, I suggest devotion to a strict principle of connecting the words fundamental to one's personal philosophy to things that are not words. I call this "linking" or "binding" set of marks and collateral sounds to things present as non-verbal in the awareness of the namer, of the person building the designed word order.
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Words bound directly to non-words, or not-words, or ~words, are understood as "prime words".
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Words that come into being because they a dependent on prime words are called "derived words".
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As example of building a designed word order look at the work of the Austrian School economists, especially, Mises, Rothbard, and Hayek.
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Explorer — a word chosen as a solvent in which all superficial differences among people disappear, leaving only the questioner, the pattern finder, the quest maker, the singer and story teller. It is a way to name what matters to us because it names an essential part of everything else that matters to us.
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Quest
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Quest begins with curiosity and questions, evolving into explorations which, over time, reveal patterns contributory to the emergence of quest, a slow weaving of the commitments of the explorer into venture, story, art, and music.
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[]Kinds of Order
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[]Hayek’s definition of order; then description of kinds of order
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Note that Hayek’s definition is based on “expectation”, not on anything that can be pointed at in the external world outside of the awareness (consciousness) of individuals.
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This replicates the method of Austrian School economists who base their entire structure of deduction on fundamental concepts that have no reference in the world outside of consciousness. It is impossible to point to a “want” except by an inward facing arrow that asks the thinker to examine their own awareness to find the thing the arrow is pointing to.
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Out of words so linked, bound to something, a series of thought experiments and deductions leads to the construction of an elaborate internal model of a vast complex of orders ranging from carefully designed to entirely spontaneous that together constitute what Hayek has named “the extended order” which cannot be directly observed but only modeled in a world-3 object (see Karl Popper),
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[]Limits are essential to the formation of all spontaneous orders.
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Weavers of Freeorder
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Freeorder Generators, forges, kinds and functions
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Forges, three kinds: ∅forge, ⥮forge, ∮forge
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∅ Silent
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focus entirely on the quests of its users
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⥮ Aligning (aligned beyond agreement)
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build fellowship and awareness of the philosophical framework of freeorder emergence
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∮ Integrating
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works to understand it all, and invests based on that understanding
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This forge strategy cannot possibly work unless there is an uncontrolled diversity of every kind of forge. There can be no center, no concentrated ownership. The world network of forges is itself a freeorder.
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Negative Politics — the defense of space congenial to exploration (open space)
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Continous persistent cumulative exclusion of the worst is the basic idea.
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The Wheel of Emergence - a vital relationship between yes and no
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Wheel-of-Emergence
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In Politics, an application of freeorder thinking
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The Principle of Progressive Exclusion: In politics progress depends on exclusion of the worst.
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Áza Valon’s Campaigns for Liberty
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Based on conversation, persuasion, general alignment
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Áza’s early speeches were inspired by Jeffrey Tucker’s The Spirits of America
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The path to Freeorder:
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Observe. Connect. Align. Celebrate.
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Observe signs of the emergence of freeorder.
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Connect people, and ideas, beneficial to the emergence of freeorder
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Align: provide a set of simple ideas to made a frame to be filled with freeorder content
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Celebrate that another span of the fabric of civilization has come off the looms of the world’s weavers, and every one of us has made a difference.
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freeorder produces alignment beyond agreement, without force, brings coherence, beyond agreement, resulting in fellowships of weavers.
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Duration, Time: not a matter of a moment in history, but a permanent generator of continuing emergence lasting as long as human-like sentience endures.
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Words fundamental to thinking about freeorder
 
This glossary contains words that must be held in place, not allowed to drift in meaning, while thinking about and discussing freeorder, with self or others. This list is arrived at through repeated experiences in which understanding of what is being talked about slides out from under mutual understanding by subtle changes (conscious or not) in the use of words.
 
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The list (currently chaotic, requiring much work to clarify need and use)
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Question
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Exploration
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Quest
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Order
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Pattern
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Cosmos and Taxis, i.e. Spontaneous and Designed
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Aware
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It
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Balance
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a point in a set of relationships thought to be needed and perhaps sought
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Change
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Expectation
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Action
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Motive
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Intention
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Value
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Change
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Word
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a collection of marks, or vibrations in a medium, intended as a marker, sign, or signal
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Prime words
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words bound directly to something that is not words
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Binding
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deliberately and clearly associating a word to something not-words
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Linking
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specifying that a word (or set) is to be considered equivalent to a chain of others
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example: I aware it ≣ it is
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Logic
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Deduction
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Induction
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Goods
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Property
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Distinction
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there can be no distinction without motive
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Boundary
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Crossing
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a shifting of attention or presence from one side of a distinction to another
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Exchange
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goods crossing boundaries from one domain into another
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Trade
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exchange that is voluntary on the part of all parties, each giving up something of less value for something of greater value
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Domain
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a region, however defined, of assured control
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Control
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Action
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Push and Pull
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Purpose
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Objective
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End
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Means
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Plan
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Price
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Cost
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Unit
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Measurement
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Is, Ising, and all derivatives, including Isics and metaIsics
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Be, Being, and all derivatives
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Epistemology
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Distinction, Indication
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Conjecture
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Refutation
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Map
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Territory
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Virtue
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Resonance
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Emergence
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Network & Open Network
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Civilization
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Imagination, Vision, Art
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Freeorder Generator, i.e. forge
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Integrated forge, ∮forge
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Venture
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Entrepreneur
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Speculation
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Capital
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Income
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Discussions with AIs (Perplexity.ai especially)
 
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Metaisics.docx - If interested, please ask me to email a copy
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Supplementary reading; not part of Elements
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Weavers of Freeorder
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https://explorersfoundation.org/glyphery/342.html
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Freeorder Bridge
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https://www.explorersfoundation.org/archive/freeorderbridge.pdf
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A Bridge for Ulysses ••• “Freeorder Bridge” blended with Tennyson’s Ulysses by Perplexity.ai
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Thoughts on Wizards, originally written for “Amon Din”, a Tolkien magazine
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https://explorersfoundation.org/glyphery/27.html
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“Networking and the Conservation of Surprise”, by Leif Smith, published in Nomos: Studies in Spontaneous Order, 1985, a magazine
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https://www.explorersfoundation.org/archive/Conservation-of-Surprise_Leif-Smith.pdf
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Originally written for a publication of the American Academy for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
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“Can Freeorder Shape a Prosperous Self-Governing Society?” by Diamond Michael Scott, published in Advocates for Self-Government, August 2025
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https://www.theadvocates.org/can-freeorder-shape-a-prosperous-self-governing-society/
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“The Quest for Freeorder”, an interview by Thomas James, CoEvolution Quarterly, Spring 1981
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https://wholeearth.info/p/coevolution-quarterly-spring-1981 — pages 36-43
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“The Story of the Office for Open Network”
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https://explorersfoundation.org/archive/story-office-for-open-network
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[]American Airlines Magazine “Airways” article by Adeline McConnell, <date>
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About Pat Wagner, Leif Smith, and the Denver Office for Open Network
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“Emergence”, a poem, by Ion Basati, written in memory of friends killed by soldiers, 1970
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https://www.explorersfoundation.org/archive/emergence-basati.pdf
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