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# The Revolution of Values (from *Playing Qortal* by Simon James)
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*Distilled from the book included in this pack. This is the author's
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personal philosophy — offered, in his own words, as an invitation: "take
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what resonates with You, and gently leave the rest." Nothing here asks
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anyone to believe anything; it asks them to look and decide for
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themselves.*
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## The core idea in one breath
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Your time is priceless. Qortal lets you record your time as value (QORT)
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simply by keeping a computer connected to a shared network. The moment
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enough people decide never to sell that time for money, money quietly
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loses its power — and what remains is the oldest currency of all:
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kindness. A thank you. A helping hand. The book calls this real currency
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the **#QQQ**.
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## What is #QQQ?
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#QQQ is the currency everyone already mints endlessly and was taught as a
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child, long before they could count: "Here, this is for you." "Excuse me."
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"I'm sorry." "I forgive you." "How are you?" "Good morning." The small
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human things handed to one another and never billed. Everyone is already
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a millionaire in it; the task is only to widen the circle it flows in —
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from family and close friends outward until it holds the whole human
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family. Free software culture is named as proof it works at scale: tools
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built by people who chose to give, asking only thanks in return.
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## The critique of fiat money
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Fiat means "let it be done on faith" — money has value only while
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everyone agrees it does, and each crisis is that faith flickering, quietly
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draining the savings of ordinary people. Banks do not lend existing
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savings; loans summon new money into being. The book's stance is not
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guilt but responsibility: "what we made together, we can also unmake."
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## Voluntary is the whole revolution
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Not a revolution of weapons or governments. Qortal never requires buying,
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selling, or permission; everything is voluntary, and that single word
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carries the entire transformation. "Never be fearful and never be greedy"
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is the book's only financial advice, and it notes Qortal removed the need
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to arrive rich in order to matter — no first-mover advantage money can
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buy.
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## The spiritual ground: I AM
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The book's deepest chapter reads the great teachings — "treat your
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neighbour as yourself" — literally. The divine name in the old scriptures
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is simply "I AM": bare awareness, the one thing you have never once been
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without, looking out of every pair of eyes — including the stranger's.
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When that is truly felt, cruelty stops making sense: wounding another
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becomes a strange way of wounding yourself. Compassion stops being a rule
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and becomes what remains when the illusion of separateness thins.
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Forgiveness becomes "the quiet recognition that there was never truly
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someone else there to blame." The author explicitly prefers that readers
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NOT believe this — but look for themselves: "Who is reading these words,
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right now?"
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## On religion, death, and grief
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The book honors faith and the traditions that stayed close to the living
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spark (indigenous wisdom, Eastern philosophy, contemplative traditions)
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while criticizing the machinery of commerce and control that grew around
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them — nowhere uglier than the marketplace built on grief, where even
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burying loved ones must first be paid for. Its dispute is with the
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machinery, never with the seekers.
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## On love, family, and children
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Choosing one person and loving them for a whole life is called one of our
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most beautiful inheritances. Children learn from what we are, not what we
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say: from conception to about age seven the mind absorbs the emotional
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weather around it without filter, setting the deepest patterns of a life.
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Raising whole children begins with being a living example of love.
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## First steps (from "The Choice Is Yours")
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Small and close to home: support a local farmer. Plant a garden, however
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little. Keep a few animals if you can. Bring life back to local markets
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and offer, now and then, to be paid in QORT. When someone asks what that
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is, share qortal.dev or this book. If it feels like pretending at first,
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"fake it until you make it — the one thing in it that is never fake is
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the sharing. There is nothing more real than an unconditional, outrageous
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act of love."
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