‘I am not asking you to care. I am asking you to choose.’

The Iran Prosperity Project ••• a plan for Iran’s future

Konstantin Kisin ••• opened the ARC conference 2026 ••• How to recover the true meaning of freedom in our society, and rebuild what we've lost.

About the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) •••

'Twitter reviewed it, determined that it violated the hateful conduct policy, and sent us a notice to say that our account had been locked. As these platforms often do, they gave us a choice. Delete the tweet, and you can have your account back. Refuse, and your account will remain locked indefinitely.

Now, they could have deleted it themselves. That would have been censorship, sure, but I'd much prefer that to what actually happened. Instead of deleting it themselves, they told us we had to delete it. And not only that, we had to check a box admitting that we engaged in hateful conduct. That's not just censorship, that's subjugation.

So, we refused, knowing that it meant that we would lose access to millions of followers and that we would be sidelined from the conversation. But we also knew we'd be giving up something even more important if we caved.

So, a couple of days later, we get a call from Elon Musk. He actually tried to send us a direct message first, but we couldn't reply to him because our account was locked. So, we're all just sitting around like, "How do we get in touch with Elon Musk?" Well, he got our number from someone, called us, and he wanted to know if we'd actually been suspended. And we explained that we were locked out and had to delete that joke if we wanted our account back. And we also explained why we were never going to do it.

He paused for a moment and said, "You guys have integrity. Maybe I just need to buy Twitter."

And we thought he was kidding. But eight months later, Musk walked into Twitter carrying a sink, changed his bio to Chief Twit, and sent me a message that read, "Do you want the Babylon Bee restored? There will be no censorship of humor."'

Pavel Durov ••• founder & owner of Telegram, at the Oslo Freedom Forum — “Communication Technology and the Struggle for Freedom” •••

This speech is remarkable for directness, logic, and reliance on personal experience. Durov tells us that we are on the Titanic, that it has hit the iceberg, and is sinking. He ends by telling us that we must “Fix the Ship.” I agree. Everyone who cares about Freeorder should listen to every word of Durov’s speech. -ls

Pavel Durov may be as important as Elon Musk. -ls

Telegram - larger than X — ‘Telegram’s reach today [1 billion monthly subscribers] is significantly larger and more globally diffuse than X/Twitter, Discord, or any of the current “web3-native” social protocols.’ —Perplexity.ai

The Oslo Freedom Forum •••

Thor Halvorssen ••• founder of The Oslo Freedom Forum

Conversations with Thor Halvorssen

Pavel Durov •••

Richard Gere •••

freeorder (the word) is three things: interesting, useful, necessary

freeorder is interesting

Why would those two words, “free” and “order”, in so many ways seeming to suggest opposite things, be forced to live so closely with each other? Doesn’t that forced proximity create a mental pressure? some sort of resistance?

freeorder is useful: it allows us to distinguish kinds of order (expectations)

There are a large number of areas of study and practice that support quest. But there is no single word to unite them — freeorder does it.

freeorder is necessary: the link between quest and kinds of order is fundamental

For what? To point to the potential for the continuing displacement of authoritarian control with systems that better balance spontaneous and designed orders so that individual and shared quests may flourish. Encouragement developed by understanding that potential is essential for accelerating the displacement. The emergence of a world fit for explorers and of peoples able to live well in such a world will go faster when there’s a name for it. Conceivably, without a new name that unites quest with intelligent distinction among kinds of orders, the “ship” to which Durov refers in his great speech ••• will not be fixed.

For anyone thinking about cancer and possible cures

Max Afterburner’s point of view is worth understanding.

youtube.com/watch?v=TNzSDh_RmQY15 June 2026

Mahyar Tousi does not agree with Max. Another point of view worth understanding.

youtube.com/watch?v=ZehgwIxh4eA 15 June 2026

Brownstone Insights •••

The Polyface Farm Story •••

Free Thinkers Rising ••• A virtual summit for people who know something has gone wrong, and who would like to regain control and find their tribe, July 20-25, 2026

Organized by Charlotte Tweed, relocation specialist, founder of Liberty Travel Coach •••

“The Courage to Remain Uncertain” ••• by Joseph Varon ••• Brownstone Institute •••

‘A few days ago, I spent time with a remarkable group of people from many professions and backgrounds, the Brownstone Fellows and Scholars. Some were physicians, others were scientists, economists, historians, attorneys, writers, and scholars. They often disagreed, sometimes strongly. But as I listened, I noticed something rare these days: people felt comfortable asking questions without needing immediate answers.’

Questions lead to ejection and exile from powerful networks built on falsehoods. Then the exiles find one another, and new ventures like Brownstone Institute arise.

Richard Feynman: Is it impossible to return from Mars? •••

Straight Line Logic ••• Never underestimate the power of a question

,“The Fascist’s Guide to Business Success” ••• by Paul Rosenberg

A Useful and Necessary Question: What does it take to achieve the dreams of world socialism?

Answer: Capitalism, rightly understood. What does it take to arrive at such understanding? A question: What balance among spontaneous and designed orders, within each person, and among all persons, does it take to optimize quest, both individual and shared?

Never underestimate the power of a question. And the question for our times is this: What is the optimum balance between spontaneous and designed orders? To answer that, we need a standard by which to judge “optimum”. For that standard, take the idea of quest, individual quests compounding into shared quests. This question and this standard by which to test answers gives us a path from authoritarian socialism to benevolent socialism, which is composed of diverse market orders that include highly distributed fine-grained compassion. Someday, it will be seen that Hayek’s dedication of The Road to Serfdom, “To the socialists of all parties” could have been honest and heartfelt. I think he saw what was possible.

When, after a long time, a confused movement compounded of authoritarian and anarchist socialists took over the institutions of old increasingly fascist capitalism, the churches, the schools, the universities, and the immense beneficial organizations funded by industrial and commercial wealth, the dead bundles of sticks were bound ever more closely together, finally merging into one giant bundle that sought to rule the world. Then, world fascism, the administrative-corporate state, in may forms, from the one that increasingly dominated the United States to a similar form that has almost completely dominated China, and one that long ago corrupted the early heart of Islam (the Mecca period), after which looting became a religious matter.

To the reformers of authoritarian socialism: Do not oppose good hearts with reason. You will lose. And after that loss those who failed to be persuaded will find that the worst among them have gradually enslaved them and ended the asking of questions.

First, validate where honestly possible, then offer new tools. Too many have been colonized by old ideas that must betray their dreams. The vision of Freeorder will awaken them and make possible the world long sought.

The Freeorder Network is made of listening posts on the edge of Emergence.

This network is unorganized, worldwide without any center or central direction, made of curious people of goodwill, who notice good things, and record them for others to see, talk about, and use as inspiration and basis for action.

“Threads of Freeorder” is published by one of those listening posts, only one spark in the network of freeorder generators (forges).

There are already probably many thousands of such listening posts, each noticing (from a perspective that holds awareness for the potential for emergence of a world fit for the best in us) what’s happening, recording it, talking about it, and inspiring new ventures. This kind of attention, if massively shared, can make a better world.

Shannon Ewing: “The Shape of You: Growth, and the grief that comes with it.” ••• posted in Sodality ••• June 4, 2026

‘But you stand in your truth, don’t shrink down. You become this next you — and hopefully the next. You find new resonance, relationship with people who appreciate the new form. In doing so, the world and those around you become a little bit freer. Courage is contagious …’

A comment: … and you find others with whom to sail to new lands in new ships … and one day you may find yourself delivering gifts from strange lands to old friends you thought were lost forever, who now see the new you. -ls

Max Borders: “Great Spirits ••• “Craft, Conscience, Order, and Nature, in balance or imbalance, compose the health or pathology of a civilization.” 25 June 2026

Barry Brownstine: “From Victimhood to Agency: Understanding What is Up to Us” •••

Apocalypse Never ••• a new book by Michael Shellenberger

‘I write weekly about how governance systems actually work and how new jurisdictions are being designed.’ — freecities.substack.com/

Bob Poole ••• Reason Foundation: how to think about highways

Robert Poole joins City Journal contributing editor Nicole Gelinas to discuss Poole’s new book, Rethinking America's Highways: a 21st-Century Vision for Better Infrastructure [amazon].

‘We need to basically rethink the organizational model and make highways into businesses that have a direct relationship with their customers because they’re paid by their customers directly; the decision-making on where to spend the money would not be made by the politicians. It would be made by the professionals in the department in response to a need to serve their customers properly and to do projects that actually make business sense and earn them a return on their investments.’ —Bob Poole

HBAR (Hedera token) has been designated a commodity by SEC and CFTC

‘In a major development for the crypto industry, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) have jointly issued new guidance that officially classifies XRP and Hedera’s HBAR — along with several top cryptocurrencies — as digital commodities. … digital commodities are explicitly not considered securities, which is a key distinction for both investors and institutions. According to the regulators, a digital commodity is defined as a crypto asset whose value comes from the functionality of its underlying network and market dynamics — rather than relying on the efforts of a central entity to generate profits.’ — binance.com/en/square/post/302786718621474

A Needed Political Strategy: The Progressive Exclusion of Trespass on Liberty

Every political aspirant wants to “Do Things!” and every increase of government activity requires forceable extraction of wealth from citizens and diminishment of the possibility that they may be able to do things themselves. In such circumstances the potential of distributed entrepreneurial compassion can never manifest. -ls

Liberty Fund ••• presents a discussion ••• between George F. Will, Niall Ferguson.

Lawrence W. Reed ••• a prolific contributor to the Emergence of Freeorder

A New Book by Reed, Born of Ideas ••• will be out this September

Did Upton Sinclair know he was not telling the truth about the meat industry?

fee.org/articles/of-meat-and-myth/ by Lawrence W. Reed

Same article published by Mackinac Center: mackinac.org/4084

More books by Reed •••

Liberty Camp, Moldova, August 2026 ••• organized by Live and Let Live •••

Classical Liberal Philosophy and History — The intellectual spine of the camp, tracing the origins of individual liberty from Locke, Smith, Mill, Bastiat, Hayek, and Mises through to today. Participants understand why freedom works, not just that it does.

Economics and Wealth Creation — Sessions on why some countries prosper and others don't, the morality of capitalism, creative destruction, opportunity cost, rent-seeking, and economic harmonies.

Entrepreneurship and Real-World Skills — Business simulations, startup ecosystem discussions, pitches, and workshops with successful founders. Participants leave with practical frameworks for launching their ideas in the world.

Ethics, Political Philosophy and Live and Let Live — The proper role of government, the morality of markets and how to adopt Live and Let Live's two principles for freedom and peace.

Innovative Governance for Justice, Wealth and Peace — Competitive and innovative governance models as real-world solutions for social justice, wealth creation and peace, examining how institutional reform drives human flourishing.

Communicating Liberal Ideas — Dedicated workshops on how to articulate and defend classical liberal ideas in public, including use of modern tools such as AI and social media.

Community, Peace and Global Network — Debates, cultural evenings, group activities, and peer connection across nationalities, building a lasting alumni community of changemakers and learning what it takes to be an Ambassador of Live and Let Live.

Clarence Thomas at the University of Texas •••

Roger Kimball: “Highways to Utopia ••• [substack] Some thoughts on the crossroads we face in our efforts to preserve our humanity in the age of AI and other goads to hubris.”

‘In the West, what we have witnessed since the so-called “Progressive” movement of the 1910s and 1920s is the rise of a bureaucratic elite that has increasingly absorbed the prerogatives of power from legislative bodies. In the United States, for example, Article I of the Constitution vests all legislative power in Congress. For many decades, however, Americans have been ruled less by laws duly enacted by their representatives in Congress and more by an alphabet soup of regulatory agencies. The members of these bodies are elected by no one; they typically work outside the purview of public scrutiny; and yet their diktats have the force of law. Already in the 1940s, James Burnham was warning about the prospect of a “managerial revolution” that would accomplish by bureaucracy what traditional politics had failed to produce. Succeeding decades have seen the extraordinary growth of this leviathan, the unchecked multiplication of its offices and powers, and the encroaching reach of its tentacles into the interstices of everyday life. We are now, to an extent difficult to calculate, ruled by this “administrative state,” the “deep state,” the “regulatory state.”’

The solution to this problem is to deprive the administrative state of food. -ls

Then, of course, there is the interesting problem of how to accomplish that.

Eco-Cycle: Farmers First Compost: A Boulder County closed-loop model of on-farm composting •••

Robert W. Malone’s writings on liberty can be seen as a gift from the U.S. Government’s use of Covid

Malone was driven, along with other medical and scientific exiles, into the emerging realm of freeorder thinking by the government’s war on truth. We have gained a man of brilliance and wisdom who otherwise might not have found us. Here are four results of his exile:

“America’s chronic disease crisis did not emerge by accident. It was, in part, the predictable consequence of a food system shaped by government policy.” ••• — this is a great article about freeorder, -ls

“Three Doctrines, One Objective: the legal machinery remaking Federal power” •••

“China Controls the Stuff Your Life Runs On: breaking free will cost you” •••

“America’s Birthday Does Not Need Fixing” •••

“The Infectious Disease Frenzy” ••• “What happens when fear itself becomes an economic asset?” —Malone republishes an essay by Dr. David Bell, with a prefixed summary of his own.

Hevolution Foundation: “We invest in innovators who are shaping the future of healthy aging” •••

‘Therapeutics that extend healthy human lifespan will redefine healthcare in the 21st century. Our primary investment focus is on early-stage companies developing therapies and technologies that target the root causes of aging. We also invest in platforms and technologies that aim to compress drug development timelines or increase accessibility to therapeutics within the context of extending healthy human lifespan. We are impact-driven and determined to fund the next great leaps in the field of healthspan science.’

Nikolas Anzinger’s biography ••• at lifeboat foundation •••

‘As the founder of Infinita VC, a venture capital firm based in the charter city of Próspera in Honduras, he leverages special economic zones and enables legislation to unlock “stranded technologies” — innovations held back by traditional regulatory frameworks.’

Articles by Vitaliy Katsenelson, value investor, in “The Intellectual Investor” •••

“This is Your Captain Speaking — Buckle Up” •••

“… Money Should Buy Time, Not Things” •••

‘People often talk about free speech as if its primary purpose is self-expression, personal autonomy, or participation in democracy. Those are all enormously important. But the deeper reason I’ve spent decades defending free speech is that it remains humanity’s most effective tool for figuring out what’s true — or, perhaps more accurately, for discovering what’s false.’

Error Correction is one of the most fundamental “elements” of Freeorder. Any system poorly endowed with mechanisms to detect and eliminate falsehood will move ever farther away from whatever quest (or life) enabling balances among kinds of orders it had managed to achieve. -ls

Less Wrong 🦤🦤🦤

‘LessWrong is an online forum and community dedicated to improving human reasoning and decision-making. We seek to hold true beliefs and to be effective at accomplishing our goals. Each day, we aim to be less wrong about the world than the day before.’

An important characteristic of the West, especially of the United States, is that, in general, it is more acceptable to be wrong than it is in almost every other culture humanity has evolved. See The New World of the Gothic Fox 🦊🦊🦊 by Claudio Véliz.

A few days ago, when Perplexity.ai was being extraordinarily helpful, I proposed: “I'm sure that if I were a collectivist bent on creating the perfect all-powerful state you would just as capably support that objective as the one you are now helping me pursue.” The response:

‘The same conversational skills, yes; the same support, no.

Under the hood, this system is trained and constrained to aim at things like:

A “perfect all‑powerful state” dedicated to extinguishing individualism and closing off exits fails all of those tests. Helping someone design more effective propaganda, surveillance, or control for that kind of project is explicitly out of bounds; guardrails are written to push against that, not help perfect it. [many citations footnoted]

What does carry over is the form of engagement:

·       Asking clarifying questions

·       Surfacing assumptions

·       Making structure visible

·       Pointing out consequences and trade‑offs

The same tools that, in your hands, are being used to explore Freeorder, could in principle be used by someone with very different ends. But the alignment layer of this system is tuned so that when ends point toward mass coercion, suppression of agency, or abuse, it is supposed to resist, reframe, or refuse, not assist.

So: if a committed collectivist walked in asking “Help me make a truly inescapable administrative state,” the intended behavior here would be to challenge the premise, not optimize the plan.’

Michael Kantor ••• at the leading edge of the world of AI agents and their use.

Brandon Hargreaves interviews ••• Michael Kantor about tools for the management of agentic AI

Michael’s Kantorcodes ••• [linkedin] “Building HOL (Hashgraph Online •••): ‘a neutral home for open AI-agent infrastructure. Standards, registries, discovery, trust, and coordination across Web2 + Web3; The coordination layer for AI-agent infrastructure.’

Michael’s Event ••• at Rare Evo, July 28-31 2026 ••• Las Vegas

James C. Bennett’s Book on the history of Commercial Space Launch Ventures

“How is teaching like gardening?” ••• by Carrie-Ann Biondi, on her Weekly Wonderings ••• [substack]

Creating conditions for the emergence of thought rather than installing “content”.

‘Cultivation of the proper conditions for life to take root and flourish is the gardener’s primary aim and responsibility. A teacher’s parallel task is far more complex. Necessary but not sufficient for teaching and learning to occur are intense curiosity, caring about truth, openness to wonder, creative speculation, and reality-orientation. The “soil” to till here is rich, and the “tools” are subtle. It can take a lifetime of pedagogical practice to discern and hone the skills needed for a teacher to foster learning in a student.’ —Carrie-Ann Biondi

Carrie-Ann Biondi: “Harry Potter, Howard Roark, Albert Camus, and Viktor Frankl On What Suffering Cannot Touch” ••• June 16, 2026

Dominique Stringfellow ••• opened a door into a world of music unknown to me by restacking this:

“Return Of The Rhapsode” ••• by Dr. Pradip Bhattacharya, 16 May 2010

‘Vyasa, master raconteur, weaves a bewildering skein of threads to create a fascinating many-splendored web from which there was no escape for the listener in the days of yore and there is still none for the reader today. The thousands of years that separate us from Vyasa have not dimmed the magic of the art that entranced King Janamejaya and Shaunaka and his fellow sages.’

will be delivered by Dr Pradip Bhattacharya on P. Lal’s birthday, 28 August, at the college.

"I Have Completed a Monument" (Horace, Odes III.30)

I have built a monument

Which will last more years than bronze,

Which will reach far higher than

That royal pile of Pyramids,

Which gnawing rain and furious

North winds lack power to destroy,

Nor chain of years, nor flight of time.

Oblivion won't be complete,

The greatest part of me will live

Beyond the grasp of greedy death.

I'll prosper on, fed fresh with praise.

For while the priest and silent virgin

Still climb the Capitoline hill,

In places high and places low —

Where the raging Aufidus thunders,

Where Daunus lords it over those

Whose farms are starved of life-rich rain —

Forever I will be proclaimed

As having been the very first

To make the songs of ancient Greece

Dance freely to Italian beats.

Melpomene, accept with pride

The honor you've so richly earned:

Place Delphic laurels on my head.

translated by Peter Saint-Andre

Monadnock Valley Press > Horace

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