“This is something we have never seen before. These kids have invented a -game- that, played with enthusiasm, confers a kind of immunity to lies, lures, and conversion agendas.

One of the results is a precipitous gain in relational and general intelligence, and by applying a modest framework of cooperative commitment, the players leverage these gains to form, train, and deploy small, tightly-knit teams who accomplish goals too noble, too radical, and too deeply human to be allowed by the dominant cultures they find themselves within.

The players have academic skills unlike anything we have ever seen, but here’s the problem: the game is heroic, contagious — and it is changing the fundamental nature of what it means to be human. Perhaps more surprising, it is rapidly and radically reforming local and distributed branches of government in its image.

The great enemy of our homegrown brands of enforced stupidity has arrived — not in the shape of weapons or even war — in the relational excellence of young minds playing the most heroic game ever devised in human history, and discovering it as they go along.

And it is going to win.”

— an anonymous informant, circa 2015