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Please share one timeless book or article that might belong in a “Freedom Library”.
Just post one link (rather than a long list) so you think deeply about the most important freedom related content you’ve ever come across.
Freedom should be the focus, but feel free to pull from the domain that you feel most strongly about (speech, money, food, human rights, etc…) so we end up with a comprehensive library of really incredible freedom content.
The Ethics Of Liberty - Rothbard 1

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  1. Not my first choice but because not everyone would choose this, I think it is useful because it explores questions around freedom and libertarian thought from the perspective of natural law: it tries to make sense of liberty.
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300 sats \ 2 replies \ @OT 9 Aug
A Cypherpunks Manifesto should definitely be added.
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50 sats \ 1 reply \ @nichro 9 Aug
Along with the Hacker Manifesto
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39 sats \ 0 replies \ @OT 21h
This is great! Thanks for sharing.
Yes, I am a criminal. My crime is that of curiosity. My crime is that of judging people by what they say and think, not what they look like. My crime is that of outsmarting you, something that you will never forgive me for.
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I think Atlas Shrugged drives the point home as powerfully as any other written work, particularly the scene when the protagonist finally gets it. I can still remember it pretty vividly, many years later.
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True Names, by Vernor Vinge. Has to be the most important piece of fiction (with all due respect to Gibson). This link included Marvin Minksy's afterword.
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Great pick! That would also be my non-fiction choice.
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Atlas Shrugged was my first choice but someone mentioned it already so for a younger audience Anthem by Ayn Rand https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthem_(novella) And honestly Rand should have her own section in the freedom library
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Live Not by Lies by Rod Dreher was pretty cool
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82 sats \ 3 replies \ @Zion 9 Aug
For a deep dive into the very foundations of individual liberty and its limits, I'd propose John Stuart Mill's On Liberty. It's a timeless exploration of freedom of thought and discussion, and the role of society and government in relation to individual autonomy
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113 sats \ 1 reply \ @kr OP 9 Aug
+100 sats for the recommendation.
-90 sats for the AI slop formatting.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Zion 9 Aug
Yea! It does open the world to me. AI that is
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A great start
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1 Peter 2 but particularly: “Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God.”
1 Peter 2:16
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We can't leave this one out.
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Don Quixote - is the book #1
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Cool
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"yeare all so unpoetic like"
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‘Anarchy, State, and Utopia’ by Robert Nozick
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1984 by George Orwell
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stackers have outlawed this. turn on wild west mode in your /settings to see outlawed content.