The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age

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Ellen Meiksins Wood (1972). Mind and Politics: An Approach to the Meaning of Liberal and Socialist Individualism. University of California Press. ISBN 0520020294. p. 7

University of Bath: Honorary Graduates 1966 to 1988". Bath, Somerset: University of Bath. 2012. Archived from the original on 16 January 2013 . Retrieved 29 December 2012.Afflicted by oesophageal cancer, he became seriously ill just before Christmas of 2012, and died in London on 29 December at the age of 84. [38] Rees-Mogg's funeral was held at Westminster Cathedral on 9 January 2013, [39] with his body being buried in the graveyard of the Church of St James at Cameley in the county of Somerset. One big enabler of this worrying trend is the fact that many major western countries are not true democracies (eg UK, US) and so allow a minority to make huge changes for everyone.

Though the authors (relatively) correctly predict the affordances of digital technology, they then recommend that people should try to hoard their wealth as Sovereign Individuals by placing it in tax havens and such. Ugh. This misses two huge points: Also, the Youtube channel ‘Knowing Better’ has a video showing how the notion of the Sovereign Citizen has played out in the US: Rees-Mogg, a Roman Catholic, argued that the image of an ultra-conservative papacy is false and that the Vatican must overhaul its PR machine (as of 2009). [36]

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He moved to The Sunday Times in 1960, later becoming its Deputy Editor from 1964 [10] where he wrote "A Captain's Innings", [12] which many believe convinced Alec Douglas-Home to resign as Tory leader, making way for Edward Heath, in July 1965. [11]

It was a bit of an Ancient Mariner moment. There was something so intense about the voice chasing me down the platform at Marylebone station. Increasing information doesn’t necessarily mean increased coherence. The authors state it brilliantly: If someone says something will happen, and then later it happens, does that mean that what he said had no role to play in making that thing happen?

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In the digital age (especially with cryptography), it’s much more difficult for nation-states to extort capital through violence (Vitalik calls this the “defender’s advantage”). The nation-state’s decreasing ability to extort capital is occurring at the same time as the value we gain from them goes down. The long-held balance of extortion vs. protection is breaking. Right now nation-state citizens function as employees (governance through democracy-based voice), not customers (governance through exit-based capital). So the authors predict that a given company/person will use a tax haven, then use “protection as a service” for safety from violence.