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December 22, 2025
** SELF_GOVERNMENT
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** Trapped in the Invisible Time Cage
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Most control doesn’t look like a boot on your neck—it looks like a life trapped in the next paycheck, the next scroll, the next fix. This piece explains “time preference” and why high-time-preference habits quietly strip your bargaining power and independence. Then it offers a simple way out: build buffers, lower your dependence, reclaim your agency.
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** Protest + Civil Disobedience
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LIBERTARIANISM
** Do You Like Being a Slave?
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We call ourselves free—yet live under taxes, laws, and systems we can’t meaningfully refuse. This essay frames modern politics as a “soft” form of slavery: normalized, ritualized, and enforced through compliance. It’s an uncomfortable read—in the best way.
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MONEY
** Money Makes the World Go ’Round
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Money isn’t just paper—it’s a trust system that quietly coordinates nearly everything we do. This review races through the origins of markets, lending, panics, and the shift to fiat currencies backed by credibility rather than metal. If you’ve ever wondered why money feels solid—until it doesn’t—start here.
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ARTICLE HIGHLIGHT
** What Stoicism Can Teach Us About Self-Governance
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Modern life trains us to outsource responsibility to systems, leaders, and institutions. Stoicism offers a different starting point: govern yourself first, or nothing else will feel governable. This article explores how self-mastery—shaped by Stoicism, Taoism, and Martin Luther King Jr.’s “life blueprint”—forms the foundation of real freedom.
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