“Cognitive liberty begins at home, behind your eyes and between your ears. The first act of liberation is to step forward, and be counted as one of us.”

—  Mark Pesce

Tales of Un-DARE-ing Do http://hyperreal.org/~mpesce/undaringdo.html

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