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    AUTHOR: MAX BORDERS

    Max Borders is author of After Collapse: The End of America and the Rebirth of Her Ideals and The Social Singularity: A Decentralist Manifesto. Max is also co-founder of the event experience Future Frontiers and founder of Social Evolution, an organization dedicated to subversive innovation.

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    • Beware the Universal Basic Income

      Photography by midzz at Deviant Art. Reasons to be skeptical of a UBI, plus a brief sketch of decentralized alternatives Not since the carbon tax has there been a proposal hotter than that of the universal basic income (UBI). Big Tech luminaries suc

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    • How We Become the Social Safety Net

      Human Fractals and Decentralized Alternatives to a UBI (DISCs) See art by SPCPETEW at Deviant Art Imagine a condition in which we have created our own social safety nets. That is, the safety nets are not created for us by some authority. Through se

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    • Cryptopsychedelic: Powerful Therapies for the Decentralization Age

      Part one in a series on the convergence of crypto technologies and psychedelics Art by Drunvalo Melchizedek at Psychedelic Adventure About a year ago, Joel’s life was a mess. He was overweight. He suffered frequent bouts of depression. And he could

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    • On “Curing” Authoritarianism

      Can Psychedelic Augmentation Prepare Us for Societies of the Future? “Double Boxed” by teundenouden at Deviant Art What is the difference between a disease and a disposition? And what if there were compounds that were just as effective at changi

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    • It’s Not Cambridge Analytica. It’s Our System of Government

      Let’s be honest: We’re set up for a democracy of rubes and that scares us Source: Deviant Art Artist: Oddities by Ernie The coordinated outrage against Cambridge Analytica is brilliant strategy. What better way to neutralize your opposition in a

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    • Before the Violence Strikes

      Photo by Rakesh Bakshi, International Business Times, Getty Images Violence is a fact of life. And yet, we should continue to do what we can to reduce it. Questions around policies are debatable. But we’re not interested in policy debates here, as

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    • Towards a Synthesist Movement

      Triaxial Weaving by Tim Tyler Weaving Healthy Values Together Beyond Political In-Groups The first instinct for most partisans or ideologues is to dig in one’s heels and cling to a checklist of group-identity criteria. Identification with one’s

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    • The Social Singularity is Here

      Well, the book anyway. It’s been a while since I’ve written. One reason is I’ve been gearing up for the launch of The Social Singularity. If you’re curious about the book, you can get it and help tweak the Amazon algorithm. If you’d like to

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    • Welcome to Social Evolution.

      Dubai skyline among clouds courtesy of Vertical Dubai We’re committed to liberating humanity through innovation More regimes have been brought, piecemeal, to their knees by what was once called “Irish democracy,” the silent, dogged resistance,

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    • The Death of Political Theory

      By Richard Cederfjard at Deviant Art Ideology Dies One Small Social Experiment at a Time Greetings from the post-ideological era. It’s early still, but what innovators and entrepreneurs are creating right now is about to reorganize society as we k

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