You may want to skip this if you are in a hurry, but please come back to it at some point, because real acknowledgements, where someone says “Thank You” to all the people and institutions that helped them get where they are, help to contextualize where the work came from. They are never complete, of course, and are often open to the willingness or awareness of the individual writing the book to actually list all their influences. Because this book is over two decades in the making, my list will be long. Because I tend to think of things in a very global fashion, I will digress. But as radical as this text is in terms of personal expression and free will, I also believe very strongly inasmuch as I’m capable in recognizing and ...

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