Through use of AI we might lose our fear of refutation, something that would be enormously beneficial to humanity.

AI will help millions of people learn to think — while combining imagination with critical rationality (a kind of freeorder), because few people mind being corrected by a nonjudgmental AI. Most will come to enjoy it, especially as they feel their ability to think gaining strength.

Glenn Reynolds, publisher of Instapundit on 6 Sep wrote:

‘JIM BENNETT, A LONGTIME FRIEND and one of the founders of The American Rocket Company, possibly the first serious effort at a commercial launch company, is writing a history of the commercial launch industry, and is asking for donations.

He’s a super smart guy (also the coiner of the term “Anglosphere”) and his book will be well worth reading.’

Jim writes on the book’s GoFundMe page:

‘Hi. I'm James Bennett, and I was one of the co-founders of several of the early private space launch companies that founded the industry decades before SpaceX and Blue Origin. I was heavily involved in both the business and regulatory sides of the industry, and participated in the legislation and policy that made the industry possible at all, and paved the way for today's industry. But today this history is not well known, and many of the key founders have already passed away. For example, of the three founders of American Rocket Company I am the only one still living. It is my goal to capture this firsthand story while it is still possible. I am a published author with two books by mainstream publishers, both well reviewed. I have no ongoing institutional support although I have had enough foundation support in the past to begin research and writing. I am looking for further funding to support research, travel, and conducting interviews while writing and marketing the final products.’

I know Jim well and have been supporting work on this book. I think it will be an important contribution to the development of the idea of freeorder, to the history of its emergence, and to the future of humanity as we make new homes beyond earth. -ls

Explorers Foundation has provided substantial support for this project. We believe it is an important contribution to the emergence of Freeorder. Jim’s work may now be supported through GoFundMe. Please join his backers, here: gofundme.com/f/commercial-space-launch-history-the-unknown-story

“Can Freeorder Shape a Prosperous, Self-Governing Society? ••• by Diamond Michael Scott ••• published 25 Aug 2025 in the Tao of Liberty ••• section of the website of Advocates for Self-Government •••

I would like to acknowledge the integrity of the author and the editors at Advocates for Self-Government, who published the correct definition of Freeorder even though they expect that it may be incomprehensible to many readers. This is possible. -ls

As published: Freeorder is quest-enabling balance among spontaneous and designed orders.

Max Borders launches a new substack: “We have liftoff ••• Introducing.... the inaugural episode of Underthrow, the podcast” writes Max on 10 September. I believe this podcast, like SpaceX’s rockets will put good experiments and services into orbit. Congratulations, Max! -ls

The Genesis episode ••• features James Harrigan of Words and Numbers

Max Borders admirably and constructively wrestles with his own ideas, while summoning the help of the ghost of Albert J. Nock — a wise choice

“Conversation With a Ghost: A dialogue with Albert J. Nock on the Remnant and forming the Grey Robes,” September 2025 — greyrobes.org/p/conversation-with-a-ghost

An introduction to the idea of the Grey Robes, a fellowship of truth seekers, published by Max in July of 2024: “What Does 'The Grey Robes' Symbolize?

The Network State, we say, needs a beating heart and a belief system. But what does all this represent?” — greyrobes.org/p/what-does-the-grey-robes-symbolize

“Isaiah’s Job” ••• by Albert J. Nock (“fierce critic of organized stupidity”)

‘This essay first appeared in The Atlantic Monthly in 1936. Compare Nock’s description of the masses to Eric Hoffer’s in The True Believer. Nock (as am I) was a man of faith, but wrote as a dispassionate observer of mankind.  Hoffer, an equally dispassionate and accurate observer of people, abhors group manifestations of faith — human leaders with human followers — and says little or nothing about the individual who is a person of faith but not a follower of a movement.  Nevertheless, it makes for great, great reading to alternate between Nock and Hoffer, as I have been doing since 1970.’ —David A. Woodbury

The Elephant of Surprise ••• a novel by David A. Woodbury

‘Radical Individualist — Fierce critic of organized stupidity, deliberate ignorance, empowered self-righteousness, empty education, the State as God’

‘The world deserves restored access to the words of its most brilliant exponent of individual rights and responsibilities, its fiercest social critic, and the State’s most incisive antagonist. This site was conceived to conserve and impart Nock’s writing and wisdom to the curious.’

The Duty to Dissent Project ••• challenges the FSMB's PERM-MD strategy

FSMB is “Federation of State Medical Boards”

PERM-MD is FSMB's April 2022 document titled "Professional Expectations Regarding Medical Misinformation and Disinformation

‘The Duty to Dissent project exists because doctors like Meryl Nass ••• Robert Malone ••• Pierre Kory ••• Peter McCullough ••• Paul Marik ••• Mary Talley Bowden ••• Molly Rutherford ••• Simone Gold ••• and hundreds of others continue to exercise medical conscience over conformity and refuse to be transformed into compliant PERM-MDs.

Though still relatively small in number, the battalion of medical freedom warriors has discovered that they aren't isolated voices crying in the wilderness—they are part of a growing army of dissident fighters willing to put their careers, reputations, and livelihoods on the line for their patients, colleagues, and the future of medicine itself.’

About ••• ‘Duty to Dissent (D2D) is a collaborative medical testimony project that preserves the experiences of medical professionals who choose conscience over conformity during this COVID era. Through these powerful accounts, we serve as a strategic catalyst for what attorney Jeff Childers describes as the medical innovation movement. As Childers observed, "the grassroots medical populism and authoritarian defiance that powered early resistance to COVID vaccine mandates has graduated into an entire medical innovation movement—real medical freedom—one that's more interested in outcomes than enforced orthodoxy.”’

dutytodissent.substack (also linked above)

A design principle for the catalysis and acceleration of freeorder emergence is provision for ethical and honest error correction, whereby institutionalized lies can be challenged, diminished, and finally, eliminated - making possible free migration out of corrupt systems. See Áza Valon on reversing politics by the use of the exclusion principle ••• -ls

Dr. Pierre Kory’s Leading Edge Clinic serves clients with the legal support of First Nations Medical Board

‘First Nations Medical Board was created and organized to operate as an indigenous medical board wherein healthcare professionals can join and turn to for guidance, organization, and support for the practice of health optimization as such professionals receive no such support from their traditional medical boards and/or states. Currently, only two states (Nevada and Arizona) have “Alternative Medical Boards.” It is the mission of the FNMB to integrate medical professional–such as osteopaths, allopaths, naturopaths, chiropractors, and traditional Indian healers –into a board dedicated to the advancement medical science while preserving effective healing therapies, products, and protocols used for centuries.

FNMB allows Leading Edge Clinic to freely practice medicine in the way we believe is best for our patients. Our integrative approach is supported by FNMB’s mission. In this way, we are protected from politically motivated attacks on patients’ right to choice of treatment when it comes to the use of things like repurposed drugs, and non-‘traditional’ approaches to healing.’

Apple in China, by Patrick McGee, 2025 — This book could make a difference. -ls

‘It would be banal to say that Apple wouldn't be Apple today without China. … What this book contends is more intriguing—that China wouldn’t be China today without Apple.’

‘Apple in China tells a huge untold story—how Apple used China as a base from which to become the world's most valuable company, and in doing so, bound its future inextricably to a ruthless authoritarian state. It's the story of how Apple convinced Beijing it was not merely a merchant in China, but a kind of patron and mentor, financing, training, supervising, and supplying Chinese manufacturers.’

Freedom Cities Podcast – Episode 8: Tom W. Bell

‘Professor Tom W. Bell joins the Freedom Cities Podcast to discuss Ulex, his open-source legal system, and how it’s being used in projects like Prospera and the Catawba Digital Economic Zone. He also breaks down his draft Freedom Cities Act, which proposes using federal enclave land to create new cities in the U.S.’

Tom W. Bell's ••• [tom’s writings] Your Next Government?: From the Nation State to Stateless Nations ••• [amazon] is about legal systems optimized to support special economic zones of all kinds. For the world of scholarship devoted to law for such zones, made to provide more freedom than can be allowed by traditional governance systems, this book is a foundational document. Published by Cambridge University Press, October 12, 2017.

Balaji Srinavasan ••• posts ••• on Tiebout Sorting —> The Network State

‘The mathematical basis for the network state is Tiebout sorting. In 1956, Charles Tiebout proved that if you had:

(a) low-cost mobility

(b) frictionless discovery

(c) no inter-jurisdictional spillover effects, and

(d) many possible jurisdictions

...then individuals could vote with their feet by sorting themselves into communities that efficiently matched their preferences for public goods.’

Network State Conference ••• [balaji’s link to luma] Singapore, 3 October 2025

‘The Network State Conference is for those interested in founding, funding, and finding new communities. This year's speakers include Vitalik Buterin, Bryan Johnson, Amjad Masad, Jacqueline Poh, Akshay BD, Andrew Huberman, Xen Baynham-Herd, Lily Liu, Sreeram Kannan, Nuseir Yassin, Dan Romero, and Ranveer Allahbadia.

Topics include startup societies, network states, digital nomadism, competitive government, legalizing innovation, and internet-first institutions. Watch presentations by startup society founders from around the world, explore them, and find the community that fits you.’

Michael Kantor of Hashgraph Online interviewed by Brandon Hargreaves (videos)

The interview: youtube.com/watch?v=Y0LkObIS2Fo&t=928s

Michael’s group is building a framework enabling AI to gather, build, and integrate intelligent agents to do useful things in a trustworthy way and at low cost. Things covered in this interview: Agentic AI, large and small language models, how ensure the trustworthiness of agents and language models.

“Neuron Joins Hashgraph Online DAO: Powering a New Era of AI and Machine Commerce”- an article by Michael Kantor

A note about the density of references to Hedera in “Threads of Freeorder”

This publication is written by one among many (possible) integrating forges (∮forge), each of which must experience the catalysis and acceleration of the emergence of Freeorder from a single point of view, and therefore be extremely limited in its ability to comprehend what’s happening. The editor of this “Threads” believes that Hedera is exceptionally suited to support Freeorder. We acknowledge that the world of web3 is large and many points of view are worthy of attention. I hope that other ∮forge may see the world differently, and the web of knowledge about freeorder will be enriched by those differences. This small set of symbols may help to visualize the worldwide fabric of ∮forge being woven on the looms of emergence:

∮ - a single ∮forge - a venture, a listening post, run by individual or a small group

∯ - connected ∮forges - clusters, in which a few ∮forge are known to each other

∰ - emergent world of numerous ∮forges - includes all, although most do not know of each other they nevertheless are mutually reinforcing and in sum constitute a global learning network

Hedera Announcement, 16 September 2025 — trust, code neutrality, resilience

‘One year ago, on September 16th, 2024, Hedera contributed its entire codebase to Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust (LFDT). That donation created Hiero, the first public blockchain codebase contributed to an independent foundation. This marked a turning point for Hedera, and reinforced the belief that trust must be built in the open, not behind closed doors. It also underscored a commitment to code neutrality: the principle that no single company controls the rules. Neutral code is the foundation of lasting trust as it’s open, transparent, and resilient enough to outlive any single actor.’

Hidden Forces: Critical Thinking for a Complex world, with Demetri Kofinas

Leemon Baird | The Future of Distributed Ledger Technology Is Not Blockchain, It’s Hashgraph, Episode 22 of Demitri Kofinas’ Hidden Forces, 16 Oct 2017

Kofinas was one of the first to recognize the significance of Baird’s invention for networks of computers that must maintain trusted agreement about the data they hold.

Baird earned a Ph.D. in computer science at Carnegie Mellon in less than three years, the fastest ever, but it took him another five years of failed attempts to solve the problem of achieving consensus about the state of data commonly held by computers in an extensive worldwide network. His solution is now almost invisibly changing the world.

The writings of Tom W. Bell on polycentric law, common law, Ulex open source law, free cities, special regulatory zones, governance as a service

What is Ulex? — explanation from https://github.com/proftomwbell/Ulex

‘An open-source legal system for special jurisdictions, online markets, ZEDEs, seasteads, and other startup communities. It combines tested and trusted rule sets from private and international organizations in a robust but flexible configuration.

Ulex protects personal and property rights with an efficient and fair dispute resolution process, promoting the rule of law.

Ulex is not imposed by any government but instead adopted by the mutual consent of those it governs.’

A pattern is forming — the Emergence of Freeorder - three points:

The New Industrial Mission •••

Free Black Thought ••• a journal

Voices of Reason: Lessons for Liberty’s Leaders ••• by Robert Begley •••

“James J. Hill and Great Northern Railroad” ••• by Talbot Manvel, in “The Objective Standard”, 19 February 2011 — this article is behind a paywall, but may justify a trial subscription (free for seven days).

James J. Hill & The Opening of the Northwest, by Albro Martin, Oxford University Press, 1967 ••• [amazon] — principal reference used by Manvel in the above article

An essay by Elbert Hubbard on James J. Hill taken from his multi-volume Little Visits to the Homes of the Great, now available at no charge from Gutenberg — gutenberg.org/files/23595/23595-h/23595-h.htm#JAMES_J_HILL

The 1921 Club — an Invitation

The 1921 Club is for those who believe that the parent of the 21st Century must be the 19th Century, not the 20th Century, and who regard last century as an encounter with severe illness, during which, to be sure, horrifying things arose and taught us much.

If you think that the 19th century should be a driving inspiration for the builders of the 21st century then the 1921 Club extends an invitation. Andrew Carnegie, Friedrich Hayek, Ludwig von Mises, Peter Kropotkin, Karl Popper, Michael Polanyi, Ayn Rand, Emma Goldman, Henry Bessemer, James Watt, Richard Cobden, John Bright, John Morley, Charles Schwab, Andrew Mellon, William James, Louie from the beet field, Gustav Mahler, J. J. Hill, and Elbert Hubbard may smile upon you from afar.

Joining the 1921 Club is a simple matter — decide you're a member. Now you are.

Various people maintain lists of 1921 Club membership. Seek them out. Add your name to the lists you find congenial. Each list keeper will probably describe the Club differently, but will not lose their grip on the fundamental idea.

One list of members is kept by the Explorers Foundation. Our list is private until you are on it yourself. If you think you should be on our list, but don't know if you are, please contact us.

Somewhere there may be a list of list-keepers. If so, we have not found it yet. If you find one, please let us know. We would like to be on that list.

No matter if you are on a membership list or not — begin seeking out members of the Club, invite participation, and make note of the distributed library of fine books that constitute the Library of the 1921 Club.

Leif Smith, President, Explorers Foundation, Inc., member of the 1921 Club since 2001

“The Vaccine Schedule Finally Under Fire” ••• by Jeffrey Tucker for The Epoch Times, cross posted to ZeroHedge, and found on Robert Gore’s Straight Line Logic

Charlie Kirk

James O’Keefe: “The Death of Charlie Kirk is the Turning Point for Accountability in America”

Vitaliy Katsenelson: “Charlie Kirk and the Cost of Courage”

This is the situation we must resolve — no easy thing to read

‘They could not see the world beyond the mountains, there was only a void of darkness and rock, but the darkness was hiding the ruins of a continent … But far in the distance, on the edge of the earth, a small flame was waving in the wind, the defiantly stubborn flame of Wyatt’s Torch, twisting, being torn and regaining its hold, not to be uprooted or extinguished. It seemed to be calling and waiting ...’ —Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, on the final page.

Now, let’s launch some starships (of many kinds).