threads of freeorder, leif smith, editor
 
Each separate month of Threads will be found at leifsmith.substack.com
 
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December 2025 - threads of freeorder
 
Hiroshige-Firefoxes-2025
New Year's Eve Foxfires at the Changing Tree, Ōji — Utagawa Hiroshige, 1857
The New World of the Gothic Fox by Claudio Véliz
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🌱 freeorder (process) —> Freeorder (social outcome)
 
The use of the word freeorder in “Threads of Freeorder”
When I speak or write freeorder I mean to indicate quest-enabling balances among spontaneous and designed orders.
The word freeorder exists because I apply this principle: If something that seems important is repeatedly noticed but no word for it exists then create a word for it.
“That which is without name tends to non-existence.” —source unknown
For more see “Sovereign Naming” at the end of “Threads” for December 2025.
 
Mike Rowe speaks at ACE Scholarships’ Annual Dinner in Colorado Springs
ACE Announcement of annual dinner ••• [an invitation sent to a donor]
Carrie-Ann Biondi on Mike Rowe and Ayn Rand
Regarding: “my article on Rowe and Rand! ••• I was delighted that Mike Rowe ••• on his own noticed it and then shared a link ••• to my article--along with a beautiful write-up on his Facebook page. That post got over 20,000 likes and 1,500 (mostly positive) comments, making it the most widely read TOS ••• [the objective standard magazine] article.
“Mike Rowe and Ayn Rand on the Virtues of Thinking and Producing” ••• by Carrie-Ann Biondi September 22, 2022
 
Victor Davis Hanson (VDH) — wisdom distilled from five generations of farming in Selma, California, and from years devoted to the study of Greece and Rome.
“A Classicist Farmer: The Life and Times of Victor Davis Hanson”
Victor is interviewed ••• [youtube] by Peter Robinson ••• of the Hoover Institution.
A conversation ••• [youtube] between two wise men: Victor Davis Hanson ••• and Mike Rowe •••
 
“Why People Don’t Just Want Freedom — They Want a Place to Belong” ••• by Joyce Brand, of Free Cities ••• [substack] 23 Dec 2025
 
Two posts by Laura Aboli on her Telegram channel — https://t.me/LauraAbolichannel
Home
‘You know you are home, when no matter how long you’ve been away, it just feels like you never left. My heart is always here, regardless of where I may be.
My friends know I refer to it as ‘my bubble’, it’s always been my safe place, my refuge, my haven.
As we gear up to celebrate the Man that change[d] the world forever, let’s remember it all started with mum, dad and a baby in a manger. Let’s celebrate the sanctity of marriage and family. The one institution that we must uphold and protect more than anything, for it’s the basis of a healthy society.
There is a reason why they have waged war against the nuclear family for decades; because it’s the fastest way to destroy our moral fabric, our foundation, our purpose and our will.
I know many families might be beyond salvation at this point, but I encourage everyone to build bridges, to drop grudges, to practice forgiveness and repair what may be broken.
We are all human, we all make mistakes, we often fail to see the pain in others, we say things in haste, we react too quickly and we drift apart, sometimes for stupid reasons.
We need to start the healing process and that means leaving the pain behind and mending the roads that lead to one another.
That baby in the manger grew up to teach us that nobody is beyond redemption, so who are we to judge others so harshly?
Let’s come together this Christmas shall we?’
🙏🏻❤️🙏🏻
‘Watching the madness of this world unfold
I got an email today from a subscriber who was feeling very frustrated and depressed watching the madness of this world unfold: “I don’t see a way out,” she wrote.
I know she’s not alone, a lot of people are beginning to feel that way. There’s a growing exhaustion amongst us after years of searching, unveiling, rejecting, unlearning and hoping for justice, for freedom and for peace.
I want to tell you what I told her: there is always a way out. Right now, more people than ever are looking for that door out of the system, out of the matrix, out of this insanity. And when enough of us are searching, the door appears, because we will create the door.
So don’t lose hope, keep walking towards what is real, what is right, and what is true. Every day you do that, you strengthen the path for others, and the more of us who walk together towards the exit, the faster the walls of this illusion will crumble.
It will happen. Sooner or later, it will. The door is being manifested and together, we will walk through it.’
Tess Lawrie talks with Laura Aboli
 
"On Sheep, Wolves, and Sheepdogs" ••• by LTC Dave Grossman & American Sniper
“If you have no capacity for violence then you are a healthy productive citizen, a sheep. If you have a capacity for violence and no empathy for your fellow citizens, then you have defined an aggressive sociopath, a wolf. But what if you have a capacity for violence, and a deep love for your fellow citizens? What do you have then? A sheepdog, a warrior, someone who is walking the hero's path. Someone who can walk into the heart of darkness, into the universal human phobia, and walk out unscathed.”
The difference between good sheep dogs and human guardians is that dogs don’t try to take over the farm and become the farmers.
Jannisaries & the Ottoman Empire
 
CANZUK —> convergence <— Special Jurisdictions
A pattern is forming involving the work of English anthropologist Alan Macfarlane, who has written on “The Predation Trap”, Jim Bennett’s work on CANZUK (a proposed (with precedent) confederation of Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and the UK) as a security guarantor, and the coming explosion in thinking about and building special jurisdictions.
Alan Macfarlane’s work on the Predation Trap, as found by Perplexity.ai ••• [pdf]
A Time for Audacity ••• [first edition] by James C. Bennett — a second edition is in preparation which will bring into focus the possible relationship between CANZUK and special jurisdictions built within its protection. Support for this new edition is being provided by a GoFundMe group •••
 
Refugees: What happens if thousands of people motivated by hope of finding a place to live well arrive on the shores of special jurisdictions?
Suppose the refugees are provided with Jim McNelly’s Anti-Famine Boxes ••• (made with this tech but there’s no page yet) and the tools to use them, and are offered a place in a new special zone designed to support food growing and exporting, land acquired cheaply because without water, then water is added with Agua Via’s ••• desalination technology.
One of the greatest real estate events in the history of the world: Low elevation deserts turned into new agricultural areas, like California’s Central Valley, as international real estate developers notice worthless land becoming valuable by addition of good governance, water, cheap power by Eternal Engines ••• and Cross Roads’ manufacturing technology ••• making high value products and low cost.
Refugees can become productive, own land, water, power, advanced food growing and manufacturing technologies.
 
“When the Future Isn’t Built Yet” ••• by Joyce Brand, Morazan Model Association
‘Most people imagine the future arriving fully formed—designed somewhere else, decided by someone else, delivered on a timeline they never chose. But anyone who has spent time inside a young city, a startup community, or a jurisdiction still being shaped knows the truth: the future doesn’t arrive. It’s constructed. Incrementally. Imperfectly. And always by actual human beings who decide to do something that wasn’t supposed to be possible.’
Comment: Great article! Makes me think of James J. Hill, imagining and building a railroad, the Great Northern Railway, through places most people thought of as nowhere until it inspired, served, and pulled together what became a new somewhere. -ls
 
Live and Let Live, A Practical Path to Freedom, Peace, and Prosperity — a project in development — liveandletlive.org/principles-overview/
‘Two distinct principles provide the way – moral & legal
Based on these two principles which are: the Live and Let Live Moral Principle – Be an Excellent Human and the Live and Let Live Legal Principle – Don’t Aggress, the Movement empowers people to embody its aspirational values to promote peace and to calibrate (assess and adjust) the law to remove aggression and create freedom. Morals are how we should treat each other and laws are how we must not treat each other.    
The Movement acknowledges the roles of both community and prosperity in the process of creating peace and offers opportunities to collaborate, communicate, and co-create activities and events to build community and financial well-being through its social enterprises to further freedom and peace in the world.
The Movement’s two principles simplify and foster communication that inspires and resonates, creating an empathic resonance with people around the world, and inviting collaboration to improve the world for everyone. It provides opportunities for people to actively engage, explore, practice, apply, and promote the Live and Let Live Philosophy.’
 
Advocates for Self-Government: “What’s Your Political Type? Find out right now by taking The World’s Smallest Political Quiz. Over 28,142,232 Quizzes taken & counting” … Take the quiz •••
 
The Startup Societies Network •••
Perplexity.ai on the relationships ••• between some of the key groups working on special zones (jurisdictions)
 
Destiny — a special jurisdiction project for Nevis & St. Kitts
Destiny.com — “A message for Nevisians and Kittitians”, video by Olivier Janssen
 
Tom W. Bell, “Special International Zones in Practice and Theory”, 21
Tom is a principal of the Institute for Decentralized Governance ••• which publishes the Journal of Special Jurisdictions ••• [archive, five issues] and the creator of Ulex ••• an open source legal system.
Joseph McKinney and Tom W. Bell created the Catawba Digital Zone
Catawba Corporation’s new “Digital Economic Zone: A Jurisdiction Built for the Digital Assets Industries” (Web3.0) •••
“A Digital Economic Zone (DEZ) is a type of Special Economic Zone focused on digital industries. Special Zones are small geographic areas with different legal, regulatory, and often tax policies than their host Nations. Digital Special Zones are unique because their regulations are tailored to digital, software, internet, and digital asset industries.” —Catawba website
US Tribal Nation-Backed Economic Zone Passes Rules Defining Digital Assets ••• The Catawba Digital Economic Zone in South Carolina hopes to attract crypto companies to remotely incorporate under its laws. By Sandali Handagama, Jul 13, 2022
 
“When the Noise Fades: What the Honduras Election Revealed About Free Cities”
 
Infinita City Times ••• Interviews by Niklas Anzinger
Arjun Khemani
‘Ep. 102: Arjun Khemani: Zcash, Radical Privacy, and the New Renaissance’
Max Borders
Ep. 31: Max Borders on Decentralization, Social Evolution and New Organisational Models for Firms, DAOs and Countries’
Bob Haywood
‘Ep. 67: Bob Haywood on 50+ Years of Creating Opportunity Zones in 174 Countries, Solution-Oriented Legal Engineering to Achieve China's Economic Miracle, Dubai's Rise & Fighting Poverty’
 
Two interviews with Bob Haywood by Max Borders, complementing Anzinger’s interview of Haywood
“The Invisible Hand Behind a Hundred City-States: We sit down with Bob Haywood, the "policy entrepreneur" of Opportunity Zones. Arguably, Haywood has done more than anyone alive to lift people out of poverty.
“Protocol Design for Opportunity Zones: We sit down with Bob Haywood, the "policy entrepreneur" who may have done more than any living person to pull humanity out of poverty. This is our second installment.”
 
Infinita ••• is building a network city for longevity biotech acceleration
Enterprise and Biomedical Innovation in Próspera •••
“The Ultimate Practical Guide to Próspera for Entrepreneurs” ••• 8 Aug 2023
‘After having spent more than 6 months there since April 2022, I am convinced Próspera is the most exciting new jurisdiction of this century to date, my home base for the foreseeable future, and the hub for tech futurists and builders to push the boundaries towards technological progress further than ever. ‘ —the author of this article, probably Niklas Anzinger
“The Ultimate Guide To Biomedical Innovation in Próspera” •••
‘The goal of this guide is to offer a new, practical protocol for developing biotech and regulated healthtech startups in Próspera -  from initial concept through to IPO. The upshot is that in Prospera ZEDE, safety trials are considered enough to make early sales, so you can reduce time-to-market as a biotech.’
Prospectus On Próspera: A look at Próspera, the charter city taking shape in Honduras ••• by Scott Alexander, 14 Apr 2021
 
Water for Special Zones (and for the rest of the world) — Agua Via •••
 
The Hashgraph Group & Saudi Arabia •••
 
Comparison of Sharia and English Common Law •••
 
Have you heard? A rumor on the street: the Overtons are moving!
Discussions about special jurisdictions (freezones) may move certain Overton windows into better homes. The ones where the windows are today are about to burn down. Perhaps there will be an opportunity for small trucking companies to carry good ideas to places where they will be useful. -ls
 
Joyce Brand’s weekly summary of special zone news — 5 Dec 2025
Niklas Anzinger posted a link to the Infinite Games event in Próspera in celebration of the socialists being kicked out of office in the election of November 30.
The Independent Singapore published an article about an interview with Benjamen Gussen, an Austalian academic that advocates for charter cities in Australia. Could Singapore’s next economic leap come from cities abroad?
My newest Substack article on Free Cities, November in Morazán: Storms, Rulebooks, and a Shifting Horizon, is a continuation of my monthly report on happenings in Morazán.
A shorter version, November in Morazán: A Month of Storms, Progress, and Possibility, is also available on the blog.
Alex's Morazan Monday this week is Maybe the Most Important Election in Honduras’ History.
The Free Cities Podcast last Friday was Próspera’s Chief of Staff Trey Goff on the upcoming election.
Today, there is a new podcast with Massimo Mazzone about the Honduran presidential election.
Until next week,
Joyce
Morazan Model Association
Casa 5, Calle Juan de Mariana
Ciudad Morazán, CR 21112
Honduras
 
The Gallery of Freeorder at Perinel University, on Lake Perinel
There, in that large elliptical room each artwork begins only with a frame made of a few simple ideas explaining the vision, concept, and philosophical elements of freeorder. Within these frames an astonishing variety of creators make images of freeorder process and its social emergence as Freeorder. The artworks displayed in the Gallery make starting points for conversation, imagination, and invention. -ls
Obviously fiction, but something that could and should become real.
 
International Monetary Fund (IMF) paper on Stable Coins
 
David Stockman: “The Real Story Behind the Russia–Ukraine War—and What Happens Next” ••• — courtesy of Lew Rockwell •••
 
Thomas Sowell Discusses The Trump Tariffs ••• on Peter Robinson’s “Uncommon Knowledge”
 
Monadnock Valley Press Annual Report 2025 — A Publication Update, by Peter Saint-Andre
Peter's writings make a genuine contribution to understanding the spirit and substance of freeorder. And, I love the painting of Mount Monadnock by Abbott Thayer. -ls
 
Hedera ••• a layer-1 web3 ecosystem manifesting intuitions of freeorder
‘A future built on trust: As the world’s only public network governed by known institutions, Hedera is the trusted platform for building fast, secure, and compliant decentralized applications.’
Hedera is governed by up to 39 of the world’s largest organizations (designed center) through the Hedera Council •••
Hedera’s software has been donated to the Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust ••• (spontaneous cloud). Developers access Hedera code through Hiero ••• about Hiero ••• by Hedera
Brandon Hargreaves’ weekly update ••• covers the Hedera ecosystem
Note: Brandon is working with us, i.e. this ∮forge (integrating freeorder generator) on the idea of revenue sharing tokens allowing widespread fine-grained distribution of ownership in some portions of the world’s infrastructure that produce things physically basic to the continuation of the world’s civilizations.
Program of 5 Dec 2025 ••• [youtube] — every program is excellent!
Starting times for specific parts
0:00 - Intro
0:36 - Country Adopts Hedera
3:40 - Patches on AI Part 1
15:53 - Canary Files US Crypto ETF
16:53 - Basketed Crypto ETF Revolution
18:35 - Vanguard...Not Yet
22:19 - hiveonline
33:19 - NSE Kenyan Stable Coin
33:57 - Patches on AI Part 2
45:41 - SentX Tokenomics
47:17 - Bullbarians
48:04 - KC Event and Frustrations
48:36 - HBAR Market
Selected parts of the above program
The Country of Georgia Adopts Hedera — 0:36
All real estate in the country will be registered on a Hedera network.
Ty Smith (Patches) Part 1 — Integration of Agentic AI — 3:40
Hashgraph Online: a comprehensive index of all AI agents comprising all indexed registries . the technological foundations for a seamless integration of agents discovered, and brought to a specific task . first rate tech minds working on a tremendous problem/opportunity
Sofie Blakstad, CIO of hiveonline — 22:19
hiveonline ••• empowering the growth of the informal economy
‘Sofie is CEO of hiveonline, the blockchain based community finance platform rolling out to unbanked communities across sub-Saharan Africa and Central America. Prior to founding hiveonline, Sofie spent nearly 30 years building and transforming technology and businesses for international banks, including building UBS’s first online wealth manager and leading Citigroup’s business transformation for EMEA. Sofie is the author of “Fintech Revolution: Universal Inclusion in the New Financial Ecosystem” and research papers including “Blockchain: Gateway for Sustainability-Linked Bonds”, “The Next Generation Humanitarian Distributed Platform” and policy papers on the economic impacts of emerging technology and CBDCs. She advises the UN, Central Banks, Commercial Banks and NGOs on applications of distributed ledger technology and digital assets, and chairs the Edinburgh Futures Institute’s Finance and Fintech Industry Advisory Panel.’ —africablockchainweek.com/speaker/sofie-blakstad
Financial solutions for the digital rural economy in sub-Saharan Africa
Conversation: Sofie Blakstad and Rob Allen, of Hedera
Nairobi Stock Exchange, Kenyan Stable Coin — 33:19
Ty Smith (Patches) Part 2 — Integration of Agentic AI — 33:57
Hashgraph Online: a comprehensive index of all AI agents in all indexed registries . the implications of a solution to the problem of exchange of messages and value among agents without the need to be concerned for what layer-1 network they are on, what type of keys they use, or what tokens they use for payment — an ultimate in abstraction, available now.
Hashnet MCP Server is a backbone for agentic search, interconnecting agents, services, and data across Web2 and Web3.
 
“R3L Labs isn’t detecting fraud. We’re making it impossible from the start.” 
“turning verifiable data into the premium asset class of the next decade” —R3L
Forging the Verifiable Data Economy — 3l-labs.com
‘In a world where AI can fabricate perfect deepfakes in seconds and data poisoning threatens trillions in Web3 value, trust is the ultimate scarce asset.
 
R3L Labs is building the definitive infrastructure layer that certifies the provenance and integrity of every digital asset — from videos and documents to DeFi collateral, RWA deeds, NFT art, and AI training datasets.
 
With exclusive rights to U.S. government-funded, patented shape-shifting technology, deep integration with Hedera Hashgraph, and a deflationary utility token flywheel, we’re turning verifiable data into the premium asset class of the next decade.
 
The result: a multi-trillion-dollar Verifiable Data Economy where authenticated content commands 5–50× higher value — and fakes become worthless.’
R3L Labs licenses Taekion's IP Portfolio
‘Taekion is an Artificial Intelligence (AI) and blockchain-based cybersecurity platform and token that enables secure transactions for the new machine economy.
The Taekion platform and enterprise applications support critical service providers in minimizing the attack surfaces of their networks. We incorporate lighting fast, next-generation blockchains with low to zero transaction fees and military grade security (Hashgraph).’
 
“The Woman Who Mapped Labrador and Revolutionized the Literature of Exploration”, by Maria Popova, writing in The Marginalian •••
Nothing changes the history of the world more profoundly than changing the landscape of permission and possibility for people — what is possible and permissible for whom in a given culture. And no one has changed the history of the world more profoundly than the people who, with the self-permission to defy the prohibitive dogmas of their time and place, have broadened the horizon of possibility for others; who by some variable of their birth were not allowed or expected to do the thing — the bold thing, the passionate thing, the unreasonable thing — they ended up doing.’
‘“So wild and grand and mysterious,” Mina Hubbard (April 15, 1870–May 4, 1956) writes in her journal, looking out at Labrador from beneath her narrow-brimmed felt hat, feeling the weight of her revolver, hunting knife, and compass belted onto the skirt she is wearing on top of loose men’s breeches and heavy leather moccasins rising almost to her knees. Stowed in her canoe are her sextant, barometer, folding Kodak camera, and some fishing tackle. After weeks at sea, she has finally arrived at the last unexplored frontier of her continent, which she would come to see as an “uncommon place with an uncommon power to grasp the soul.”’
Maria Popova on why she writes The Marginalian
‘This year — the final year of the second decade of this reckoning with the search for meaning — I spent thousands of hours and thousands of dollars keeping The Marginalian going. It remains free and ad-free and alive thanks to patronage from readers. I have no staff, no interns, not even an assistant — a thoroughly one-woman labor of love that is also my life and my livelihood. If it makes your own life more livable in any way, please consider aiding its sustenance with a one-time or loyal donation. Your support makes all the difference.’
An opportunity to support Maria’s work themarginalian.org
 
A Pattern reflecting the Emergence of Freeorder — no editor could be found :-)
Nick Anzinger, Arjun Khemani . David Deutch, Michael Huemor, … privacy as an accelerator of the growth of knowledge … tech that competes with centralized money … Hayek, sly introduction of competitors to government money … Zcash as digital gold, more so than Bitcoin .. Sean Bowe, software engineer … a new conception of “offshore” … the shield will make a place where the fires can grow safely . eventually the fires will bring the shield out of the cold . special jurisdictions are like vessels into which will be poured the very best of civilization as it is forced out of a dying blobocracy … CANZUK, by harboring, enabling, and protecting special jurisdictions will become open to the restoration of the best of the Anglosphere. Service is provided by CANZUK; Re-education about the virtues of the service providers is a task to be be taken up by the backers of the zones. Kind of a Möbius strip of mutual aid. … Bringing together the Shield and the Fire. The shield is “onshore”; the fire is “offshore”. Stable coins are “onshore” (KYC/AML); Zcash is “offshore”. The great diaspora of thinkers and doers is moving “offshore” at an astonishing rate. All this is foreshadowed in the interview with Arjun Khemani by Niklas Anzinger..
From a future history: The warriors holding the shield of civilization were tired, and cold. Then, by providing what they considered a last service, and by fortune unforeseen, they again became vigorous and joyful, at last understanding that the protection they provided the archipelago of special jurisdictions had allowed the best of the world to gather safely in places where the ways of the Blob were shunned and invention and restoration of native intelligence flourished. Fire was returned to the guardians as consequence of that shield (for which they were well compensated).
 
Erik Prince ••• Civilian Warriors: The Inside Story of Blackwater and the Unsung Heroes of the War on Terror ••• [amazon]
The final paragraph of Prince’s introduction:
‘So now I’m done keeping quiet. What’s been said before is only half the story—and I won’t sit idly by while the bureaucrats go after me so that everyone else can just go back to business as usual. The true history of Blackwater is exhilarating, rewarding, exasperating, and tragic. It’s the story of men taking bullets to protect the men who take all the credit, a tale of patriots whose names became known only when lawyers and politicians needed to blame somebody for something. Our critics have spoken. Now it’s my turn.’
Prince dropped out of the U.S. Naval Academy, spent four years at Hillsdale College getting a degree in Austrian School economics and volunteering at the local fire department and emergency medical service, served as an assistant to U.S. Congressman Dana Rohrabacher, became a Navy SEAL, founded Blackwater, and has now gone onto what? Might make a good advisor to the CANZUK project?
 
Fighting for Freedom and Having Fun ••• [barnes & noble] by Dana Rohrabacher, for thirty years in the US Congress representing California’s 48th Congressional District, Orange County, Southern California.
Dana contributed to the passage of The Commercial Space Launch Act of 1984 which addressed monopolistic control of space ventures in the U.S. by the Government.
‘James C. Bennett’s own accounts and contemporary reporting line up very closely with what you describe: he and other California launch entrepreneurs were indeed in Washington in the early 1980s specifically to secure regulatory clarity through what became the Commercial Space Launch Act, and they interacted with congressional and administration staff in that process.’ —Perplexity.ai
 
“The Anarchist and the Republican: How John McClau ghry and Karl Hess fought to decentralize power—one from inside the system, one ever further from it” ••• a Reason Magazine ••• article, by Jesse Walker ••• May 2025
Capitalism for Kids: Growing Up to Be Your Own Boss ••• by Karl Hess, published by Bluestocking Press •••
I’ve heard that this is one of Pat Wagner’s favorite books on freedom. -ls
The Decentralism File ••• by John McClaughry
‘This digital collection offers over 100 selections of decentralist thought from many different historic eras, authors, and countries. Together, these pieces exhibit the depth and breadth of decentralist thinking across the political, social and economic spheres of human organization, and across time.
As a whole, the curation demonstrates intellectual engagement with the problems of centralized authority and control— namely, problems related to human freedom and effective problem solving.’
‘Jesse Walker is books editor of Reason, where he has written on topics ranging from pirate radio to conspiracy theories and from cults to copyright law. The Los Angeles Times has described him as "a writer willing to attack the sacred cows of the right and left with equal amounts of intelligence and flair.”’
 
James C. Bennett’s (in progress) history of American private space ventures is now being supported by a GoFundMe network. For many years, Explorers Foundation and friends have contributed to Bennett’s work and have benefited from it.
Tanner Greer’s review ••• of “America 3.0” by Bennett and Lotus
 
OODA Loops and Spontaneous Order at Work: Underthrow Podcast with Brian Rivera and Mark McGrath (Part One) — an interview by Max Borders
‘Today’s conversation features Brian “Ponch” Rivera (CEO of AGLX Consulting) and Mark “Moose” McGrath, co-authors of The Whirl of Reorientation, discussing how they apply insights from Austrian economist F.A. Hayek and military strategist John Boyd to help Fortune 500 companies build decentralized, high-performance teams.’
 
Guardians (a movie, and a life)
“Pale Rider” ••• [wikipedia] Clint Eastwood defends a town.
Kash Patel reforms the FBI and helps to stop the flow of chemical precursors needed to make fentanyl. Interview ••• with Patel by Jan Jekielek ••• of Epoch Times.
 
Bullbarians ••• Brandon Hargreaves’ collection of NFTs
When the consequences of an action by Branden requiring unusual integrity caused him to lose financial support his response was to create a collection of nfts, sale of which helped fund his weekly program (see above for more about Brandon’s program).
Neandros, a leader among the Bullbarians, and a guardian of Freeorder (yes, she’s a professional and she gets paid, but like the best of guardians throughout history, and along with the entire fellowship of Bullbarians, she’s particular about what she fights for.)
Neandros-the-Bullbarian
 
Charles Morgan, in his Liberties of the Mind (1951), asks when the time will come ‘… when the Western nations must vindicate their own principles of freedom, and, together and severally, set their house in order. … What is the final and unmistakable signal of that necessity?”
‘Montesquieu’s answer is clear: the concentration of powers in one set of hands. Personal liberty cannot survive without constitutional liberty, and for Montesquieu constitutional liberty rests upon that doctrine of his which is called the Separation of Powers.
‘It is this doctrine that we are called upon to re-think. It was not Montesquieu’s invention. His greatness, as professor Dedieu has shown, consists is having produced an orderly analysis and synthesis from the chaos of political theory, which, in spite of Locke and Puffendorf, had bemused Europe since the death of Louis XIV. He based his system on a particular example, that of England, whose constitution he called a mirror of liberty, and then proceeded to a series of masterly generalizations.’
See pages 68-69 of Liberties of the Mind
Alan Macfarlane on Montesquieu •••
 
Alan Macfarlane's ebooks for free download [a gift from the author]
Yukichi Fukuzawa and the Making of the Modern World (Published originally in 'Making of the Modern World', Palgrave 2002)
F.W. Maitland and the Making of the Modern World (Published originally in 'Making of the Modern World', Palgrave 2002)
Baron de Montesquieu and the Making of the Modern World (Published originally in 'Riddle of the Modern World', Macmillan 2000)
Adam Smith and the Making of the Modern World (Published originally in 'Riddle of the Modern World', Macmillan 2000)
Alexis de Tocqueville and the Making of the Modern World (Published originally in 'Riddle of the Modern World', Macmillan 2000)
Thomas Malthus and the Making of the Modern World (Ebook only)
Encounters with major social theorists:
Full contents of Alan Macfarlane's website:
 
Sovereign Naming can contribute to the emergence of Freeorder.
Perplexity.ai searched some of my writings and came up with this: SovereignNaming-Perplexity.pdf
It is possible to constructively argue with Perplexity about some of its interpretations, even misconceptions, nevertheless I think it has earned a seat at our seminar table. And later, when we retreat to our room at the tavern it adds nothing to the check.
.oOo.