Welcome to the Governance Accelerator Program for Bankless Publishing! If you haven’t already, please take a look at the program overview, Governance Accelerator Program and the Written Assignment Instructions as they will help guide you through the program.

Block One will consist of four weeks of exploration and provide a foundation in critical thinking and writing. We will look at four pieces that are designed to point your thinking toward …

your thinking.

As stated in the Written Assignment Instructions, there are no wrong answers, only bad logic. You’ll spend these first four weeks understanding how to rationalize your answers and improve your thought process through writing. You will then use this skill set in the next set of blocks.

For the reading, please download the PDF to your device for review in whatever app you will use to read and annotate PDFs. For your assignment, refer to the questions below the PDF, and answer them in accordance with the guidelines in Written Assignment Instructions. When you have completed your writing, either provide a link to your Google Doc or send your assignment as a PDF to me via Discord DM.

WEEK ONE, WEEK OF AUGUST 15

Reading: Radical Thought by Jean Baudrillard (PDF)

Radical Thought.pdf

Questions:

1. How does Baudrillard juxtapose Radical Thought with Reality?
2. What does Baudrillard mean when he says “Reality, in general, is too evident to be true.”?

WEEK TWO, WEEK OF AUGUST 22

Reading: Afraid to be free: Dependency as desideratum by James M. Buchanan

Afraid to be Free - Dependency as Desideratum.pdf

Questions:

1. What does Buchanan mean when he makes the claim that “persons are afraid to be free.”?
2. How does this work into the idea that governance is everybody’s responsibility?