Autonomy without interdependence isolates.
Interdependence without autonomy traps.
Real freedom lives in the space between—
where we stand tall and hold each other up.

Interdependence is freedom on the outside: trusting others who can also self-guide.
It’s not control; it’s shared reliability.

Autonomy is freedom on the inside: being able to guide yourself, think clearly, and act from your own values—without fear or pressure.
It’s not isolation; it’s self-stability.

Silence is not the end of dialogue, but its most loaded word.

Life is not harmony without tension, but harmony through tension.

Peace is conflict, conflict in a controlled way.

But it is also smaller than the parts: each individual carries worlds of experience, imagination, and potential that the collective can never fully contain or express

A society is bigger than the sum of its individuals: it generates culture, laws, economies, languages — phenomena no single person could create alone.

Intelligence lives between us, not inside us.

Freedom is not absence of ties, but choice in ties.

And our helping is our searching for stability what provides our stability: tax wealth, not work. Help other countries. Safe the planet. Build community etc.

A migrant and the anti-migrant are both searching for stabiltiy, and for both their searching is their stability. They just clash. But for both we should hear what they say and collaborate on finding stability.

In nature evolution brings viability and persistence, evolution is the searching for stability AND the finding of stability.

The search is the finding.

Keep the network alive that keeps you alive.

But on the same time I also believe that we should collaborate. As the consequences of where this technology is heading means that we should have a much stronger opinion how it will be embedded in our society. As I see something what is becoming more intelligent with each itteration.

But we both can't deny that it is an odd experience that there are these two camps. These two sides of the same coin. As for me this is still mind boggling new technology with profound consequences. Where the story is still perhaps undersold. But for you it is the opposite.

Volgens internet wel, in zijn essay Il Saggiatore uit 1623.