Individual sovereignty is extremely attractive to those with power. It is less liberating for most of us. Great thread from @jennycohn.bsky.social. These folks are selling a form of freedom that works only for wolves.

Jenny Cohn

Peter Thiel has promoted the Sovereign Individual, which says that the shift from “mass democracy” to “individual sovereignty” can happen “invisibly” (and without a shift in public opinion) via tax-free zones & free ports & that the power of nation states will eventually splinter into fragments. 1/