I recently came across an open-source book project called Plurality that critiques both libertarianism and technocracy—not just in terms of who holds power, but in how they imagine society. Both reduce the world to isolated individuals (atoms) and a collective system (whether centrally planned or market-driven). They mainly differ in who commands authority, not how authority actually emerges.

Plurality proposes something different: decentralized democracy rooted in relationships—between people, communities, and their environments. It suggests governance should emerge from these interactions, not from abstract ideals of either individualism or centralized control.

Interestingly, this relational philosophy aligns more with how Bitcoin actually works: not top-down, not purely individualist, but through a decentralized network of mutual verification, incentives, and evolving consensus.