The Sovereign Individual Thesis

Marcus Aurelius, the most powerful man in the ancient world, wrote in his private journal a line that should give every sovereign individualist pause:

In 1997, James Dale Davidson and William Rees-Mogg published *The Sovereign Individual: How to Survive and Thrive During the Collapse of the Welfare S

In 1997, James Dale Davidson and William Rees-Mogg published *The Sovereign Individual*, and the book has spent nearly three decades being both vindic

When James Dale Davidson and William Rees-Mogg published *The Sovereign Individual* in 1997, most of the infrastructure we now take for granted did no

Davidson and Rees-Mogg predicted the nation-state would wither. They were half right, which is the most dangerous kind of right — it breeds overconfid

In 2019, Shoshana Zuboff published *The Age of Surveillance Capitalism*, and in doing so she named the threat that Davidson and Rees-Mogg never saw co

If the previous article in this series was an honest accounting of what Davidson and Rees-Mogg predicted correctly, this one is the necessary counterw

Davidson and Rees-Mogg do not hide it. In *The Sovereign Individual* (1997), they state plainly that they are writing for "the cognitive elite" — thei

In July 2022, Balaji Srinivasan published *The Network State: How to Start a New Country*, the most ambitious attempt to date to update Davidson and R

In 1997, James Dale Davidson and William Rees-Mogg wrote that "digital money will permit holders of wealth to bypass the political process entirely."