And this revolution has freed the Dreamers to plunder not just the bodies of humans but the body of the Earth itself. The Earth is not our creation. It has no respect for us. It has no use for us. And its vengeance is not the fire in the cities but the fire in the sky.

Freedom, inefficiency, and prosperity are not infrequently found together. - Samuel Eliot Morison.

We are not ourselves when nature, being oppressed, commands the mind to suffer with the body - King Lear.

PART THREE: Public Victory

Paradigms of Independence

“But you just can’t do it; you simply have to travel the road. You can’t be successful with other people if you haven’t paid the price of success with yourself.

So who does own Amazon or Apple? The answer is that no one does, any more than anyone ‘owns’ the Mississippi River, the Theory of Relativity, the Royal Economic Society or the air we breathe. A thing or – in Lord Millett’s erudite terminology – a res can exist without being owned by anyone. There are many different kinds of claims, contracts and obligations in modern economies, and only occasionally are these well described by the term ‘ownership’. The differences between the modern corporation and my umbrella are so wide-ranging that it is hardly likely that my relationship with them could usefully be described in the same way.