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The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age Paperback – 26 August 1999

by James Dale Davidson (Author), Lord William Rees-Mogg (Author)

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Language ‏ : ‎ English
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ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0684832720
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0684832722

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If you voted brexit...this book is for you.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 25 September 2018

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An extreme far right libertarian dystopian view of the future that his son JRM appears to be willing along with his WTO no deal Brexit plans. Yes...the information age is upon us and the impact of goverments being unprepared has led to western liberal democracy being challenged. This has resulted in a rise of nationalism across the globe. If you voted Brexit because you believe Britain can be a great sovereign state outside the EU...then read this book and you will find that WRM is predicting, with relish at the thought of monetary gains from no taxation, the demise of the nation state, including goverment services like the welfare state and nhs. Of course, we are just tax slaves and how much better off we will be when we are liberated from taxation and no longer have to pay for the services provided to the less well off in society...except you...yes you who voted brexit...will be one of the less well off rather than a sovereign individual.

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Alex

Technological and political prophecy, based on thorough historical analysis

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 16 March 2019

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Although written before the turn of the Millennium, this book predicted many of the social, political, and technological changes that have come to pass in the first two decades of the twenty-first century.

Some other reviewers here have seen fit to condemn this book for what they perceive to be its authors' unpalatable "extreme far right libertarian" ideology or "selfish misanthropic" attitude. From my reading of the book, these accusations are unfair. The authors do have a detectable libertarian bent, but this does not detract from the rigour of their historical analysis or the clarity of the reasoning by which they arrive at their conclusions and predictions. Throughout the book their concern is reality, and what shape it will take in the future that is now our present.

By any objective measurement, the authors were immensely successful in their efforts, identifying and anticipating the many of the fundamental technological and social forces that have shaped the last twenty years of world history. Among their predictions (written, let us remember, in 1997) are:

Political:
- "A decline in the status and power of traditional elites, as well as a decline in the respect accorded the symbols and beliefs that justify the nation-state"
- "An intense, even violent nationalistic reaction centered among those who lose status, income, and power when what they consider to be "ordinary life" is disrupted by political devolution and new market arrangements."
- "...suspicion of and opposition to globalization, free trade, "foreign" ownership and penetration of local economies"
- "...popular hatred of the information elite, rich people, the well-educated, and complaints about capital flight and disappearing jobs"

Economic:
- "Lifetime employment will disappear as "jobs" increasingly become tasks or "piece work" rather than positions within an organization."
- "Many members of learned professions will be replaced by interactive information-retrieval systems."
- "The new society, and therefore the new culture, will be defined at one end by what machines can do better than people, by automation that will do away with increasing numbers of low-skill tasks, and at the other by the power that information technology gives to people who actually have the talent to take advantage of it."
- "When the state finds itself unable to meet its committed expenditures by raising tax revenues, it will resort to other, more desperate measures. Among them is printing money."

Technological:
- "...the advent of the Information Age implies another revolution in the character of money. As cybercommerce begins, it will lead inevitably to the cybermoney....This new digital form of money is destined to play a pivotal role in cybercommerce. It will consist of encrypted sequences of multihundred-digit prime numbers. Unique, anonymous, and verifiable, this money will accommodate the largest transactions. It will also be divisible into the tiniest fraction of value. It will be tradable at a keystroke in a multitrillion-dollar wholesale market without borders."

Media:
- "Within the next few decades, for example, narrow-casting will replace broadcasting as the method by which individuals obtain their news. This has significant implications. It amounts to a change in the imaginations of millions from first person plural to singular. As individuals themselves begin to serve as their own news editors, selecting what topics and news stories are of interest, it is far less likely that they well choose to indoctrinate themselves in the urgencies of sacrifice to the nation-state. Indeed, their attitudes are more likely to be informed by the global culture to which they relate as consumers of entertainment that by the highly personal "news" narrow-casts to which they may subscribe."

The authors did not come to these startling insights at random. They are derived from a detailed investigation into "megapolitical" historical trends, the most fundamental and important factors that have shaped the successive forms of human society and civilisation so far.

Anyone who seeks a deeper understanding of the technological, social, and political upheavals of the last two decades would be well advised to read this book. To quote from its introduction, "As technology revolutionizes the tools we use, it also antiquates our laws, reshapes our morals, and alters our perceptions. This book explains how."

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Marvel

Libertarianism isn't extremism

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It's quite bonkers, and yet a consistent pattern, that collectivists love to level the accusation of ‘extremism’ at libertarians.

A cursory understanding of history shows the opposite to be the case: only collectivist feeling and misguided collectivist projects have the ability to cause genocide and suffering at a scale appropriate to label 'extremist'.

The book is profound and insightful. Save yourself; collectivist delusions will only see you trampled under the boot of some statist delusion or another.

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MM

Soverign Individuals Need Not Apply

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 27 January 2022

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This book is on the money. If you don't get a chance to read it now, you may not later. The price went up on this for a reason.

Learn what it means to be a Sovereign Individual, and prepare yourself for the coming economic-political changes about to the sweep 21st century.

This book is ahead of its time. Decent read, with plenty of historical review and examination about the aforementioned subject.

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Jayne Dodsworth

Everyone should read this.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 26 January 2021

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A book that has been recommended from many. I bought it for my husband initially. He reads factual books and political books.
We found it a a little tedious to read BUT we both think it is a must read book.
Quite frightening.

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