william rees mogg the sovereign individual

The Life and Death of the Nation-State: Democracy and Nationalism as Resource Strategies in the Age of Violence.

The Last Days of Politics: Parallels Between the Senile Decline of the Holy Mother Church and the Nanny State.

East of Eden: The Agricultural Revolution and the Sophistication of Violence.

Megapolitical Transformations in Historic Perspective.

The Transition of the Year 2000: The Fourth Stage of Human Society.

The latest edition of the book with Thiel's foreword adds two more pages).

The book contains eleven chapters and has 446 pages (400 pages of plain text, 46 pages of references, notes, and an appendix. Originally, the book was published in 1997 as The Sovereign Individual: How to Survive and Thrive During the Collapse of the Welfare State and later it was republished in 1999 under its current title by Touchstone. In 2020, the book was reprinted with a preface written by PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel. The Sovereign Individual has been recommended by members of the cryptocurrency community such as Naval Ravikant and Brian Armstrong. Later republished on 26 August 1999 by Touchstone, it forecasts the development of the twenty-first century focusing on the rise of the internet & cyberspace, digital currency & digital economy, self-ownership and decentralization from the State. The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age is a 1997 non-fiction book by William Rees-Mogg and James Dale Davidson. The Great Reckoning: How the World Will Change Before the Year 2000 Yet these pronouncements deserve far more depth of scrutiny than a tweet stream can offer.Print ( hardcover and paperback), e-book, audiobook Its prophecies portending the collapse of much of our world’s political and social structures and their inevitable replacement by an anarcho-capitalist dystopia even have their own Twitter account, which was particularly gleeful today as it tried to claim the Russian invasion of Ukraine as a thing foretold. With a new preface by Peter Thiel and Web3 stars like Balaji Srinivasan calling it “one of my top five,” the book has become a cult classic in crypto- and metaverse-obsessed communities. More than 20 years after its original publication and two years after its rerelease, this wonky prophecy about the future of technology and society now sits near the top of Amazon’s best-seller charts.

Perhaps the leading example of such a vision today is “The Sovereign Individual” by James Dale Davidson and William Rees-Mogg, which we will henceforth refer to as SI. Technology is often at the center of them, for better or worse. Moments like these (not so different from the ’20s of the last century) conjure ambitious visions for remaking the world. Europe at war, American democracy on the edge, cryptocurrencies and metaverses aspiring to replace much of reality as we know it-we live in heady times.

William rees mogg the sovereign individual