Alongside Night
Alongside Night is one of my favorite books on the subject of alternative economies. The author, J. Neil Schulman, describes how such an economy would have manifest before the Internet. It was written before darknet technologies, thus it's actually a great way to visualize what darknets really are: pure agorism.
Agorism
"The goal of agorism is the agora. The society of the open marketplace as near to untainted by theft, assault, and fraud as can be humanly attained is as close to a free society as can be achieved. And a free society is the only one in which each and every one of us can satisfy his or her subjective values without crushing others’ values by violence and coercion.”
- Samuel Edward Konkin III
Blockchain technologies are the economic bridge between all kinds of economies. So if you read Alongside Night, the use of gold stands in for blockchains.
Note: Despite of Schulman's best efforts, the movie is just pathetic and dumb. Just read the book instead.
Anyone can download a PDF edition of Alongside Night for free at alongsidenight.net.
Thanks for liking the novel. If you hadn't made a gratuitious swipe at the movie -- the only movie to portray Agorist ideas -- I would have linked this review to Facebook and Twitter. As the author of the novel I endorse the movie as an accurate representation of the novel, and as one of the first Agorists I endorse both the novel and movie as accurate representations of Agorist ideas.
Cool to see you here @jneilschulman I hope you will write on Steemit, you have an audience!
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