Inside the bookUNAUTHORISED CONCEPT NETWORK
Click any idea for a plain-English summary, the artwork it belongs to, and the other ideas it pulls on. Most of them only make sense next to each other, which is rather the point.Select any node to inspect a relationship we would much rather you did not notice. On their own these ideas are harmless. It is the lines between them that required a report, a committee, and a very long lie down.
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Stop fighting along a stage-managed line and look at who gets to make the rules, own the story, and hoard the exits.
You’ve been sold this whole “Left vs Right” pantomime for centuries. But here’s the real axis that matters: UP vs DOON.
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The book calls out the system that turns exhaustion into common sense and makes people defend the conditions hurting them.
Cyber Capitalism is a prison where the inmates willingly build the walls, guard the gates, and fight to keep each other inside.
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Gather people, pool resources, repair what has been abandoned, then make the room itself more democratic.
The clan gatherings were our chance to pull resources and build new projects and maintain and upgrade ones long neglected and abandoned.
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The novel’s alternative to permanent political class: ordinary people chosen by lot, supported to do real public work.
Sortition, they called it. Appointing by random draw.
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Protect the people who expose abuse, cover their risk, and turn truth-telling into a public good rather than a private sacrifice.
The fund would award whistleblowers that led to revelations of malpractice, corruption and deceit by officials, politicians, judges,corps, anyone.
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A housing system where shelter is a place to live and move from, not a casino token squeezed for permanent rent.
Houses became homes again and landlordism was no longer a profit driven game.
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A public dividend for everyone with a stake in the world, so freedom is not just a menu of things you cannot afford.
The true shareholders of this planet are us, everyone, every animal and plant. By the simple act of being alive, we are investors in this reality.
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A citizen-held investment engine that turns the wealth produced by society back toward the people and places that made it.
The Citizen’s Investment Bank
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The comic, psychedelic timeline break at the heart of the novel: a door out of grim inevitability and into a Scotland that chose differently.
The witch wasn’t selling me mushrooms. She was selling me a door. And I’d just walked through it.
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The call to make, share, organise, and start small rather than consuming another end-of-the-world story.
Apocalypse porn is boring now. We’ve seen every version. Try blooming instead.
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