An Interdependent Life

Essays and stories for a world built on synergy and reciprocity

Reciprocity and Freedom

Threshold

Pathway · 9 works in route · 18 min

A provisional portal through works asking how freedom changes once it is grounded in reciprocity rather than separation.

Provisional pathway frame for relation, mutual obligation, and forms of freedom that do not depend on domination or abandonment.

Provisional seeded entry. Final text is not yet published.

Within this pathway

The current public route

These works are currently public in the order this pathway is holding them. 2 seeded works in this pathway remain provisional and stay off the public route for now.

1

The Essential Freedom

The systemic consequences of changing how one feels by changing how one perceives the world, peace.

Step 01 · Essay · 8 min

2

Freedom and Reciprocity

The essential freedom without reciprocity is not enough. Reciprocity without the essential freedom is not enough. Together they foment peace and environmental harmony.

Step 02 · Essay · 9 min

3

Free to leave, worthy to stay

A recognition that control squanders and compromises the very thing it aims to protect because it separates it from what made it come to be. A…

Step 03 · Story · 7 min

4

Contractual Bonds

A review of how contractual relationships break down the very thing they are trying to preserve.

Step 04 · Essay · 8 min

5

Entropy is Freedom

Certainty and constraints are low entropy. High entropy allows for flow. When the strength of the bonds between the elements are weak, they are more free…

Step 05 · Essay · 7 min

6

Entropy Management

Entropy management through perception. Restructuring micro states to alter entropy.

Step 06 · Essay · 9 min

7

Community

We should look after the people of the world. The highest impacts can be had looking after the people we know best, and that begins with…

Step 07 · Essay · 8 min