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Permissionless Politics - by Michael Adams

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You can just do stuff.

I have always been “interested in politics” but for most of my adult life that interest meant nothing more than occasionally voting for lizard people and getting mad at headlines. This wasn’t “doing politics”; it was vibing, and vibes do not build civilizations. It won’t surprise you that building a good civilization requires good government, but the open secret is that good government requires good citizenship. We are the fundamental source of political will and we can do a lot more with citizenship than vote occasionally and tweet mean things at The Bad Guys™. This is good news and bad…

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