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Eyes Open — The World You Live In

This is the complete first tier of the Seeker path — 4 badges, 25 specific acts, exactly as they appear inside the tracker. Nothing is held back or abridged. Every book is named, every documentary linked by title, every practice given a count. The other 100 badges across the five paths are built to this same standard.

A badge is earned when every one of its acts is checked off. No streaks, no "win the day" prompts — just the work, listed, until it's done.

Tier I Eyes Open — The World You Live In
📡The Propaganda Badge
Before you can understand the world, you must understand how you've been taught not to.
read"Propaganda" — Edward Bernays (1928, free PDF)
watch"The Century of the Self" — Adam Curtis (4 parts, BBC/YouTube)
watch"HyperNormalisation" — Adam Curtis (YouTube)
read"Manufacturing Consent" Ch. 1–2 — Chomsky & Herman
read"This Is Not Propaganda" — Peter Pomerantsev (2019)
read"Invisible Influence: The Hidden Forces That Shape Behaviour" — Jonah Berger (2016)
practiceAudit: Pick 3 news stories this week — identify the propaganda technique in each
💰The Money System Badge
Every war, every crisis, every government policy runs on money. Trace it.
read"The Ascent of Money" — Niall Ferguson (the full sweep of financial history)
read"Debt: The First 5,000 Years" — David Graeber (where money and credit actually came from)
watch"How the Economic Machine Works" — Ray Dalio (30 min, free, YouTube)
read"Crashed: A Decade of Financial Crises" — Adam Tooze (2018)
journalJournal: Trace exactly how money is created in your country — step by step
📱The Algorithm Badge
The feed is not a mirror. It is a furnace that burns your attention for someone else's profit.
read"Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now" — Jaron Lanier (full)
read"The Attention Merchants" — Tim Wu (full)
read"Digital Minimalism" — Cal Newport (full)
watch"Can't Get You Out of My Head" — Adam Curtis (6 parts, BBC 2021)
watchTristan Harris — "The Social Dilemma" (Netflix, 2020) + his Center for Humane Technology talks
practice30-day documented social media diet — log every urge, every relapse, every hour reclaimed
journalJournal: What did the algorithm believe about you — and which of those beliefs did you start to live?
🏫The Schooling Machine Badge
You were not educated. You were processed. Understand the factory that built your obedience.
read"Dumbing Us Down" — John Taylor Gatto (full)
read"The Underground History of American Education" — John Taylor Gatto (free online, full; American history but the structural critique generalizes to every state schooling system)
read"Deschooling Society" — Ivan Illich (full)
read"The Case Against Education" — Bryan Caplan (2018, the economist's case that school signals more than it teaches)
studyStudy Foucault on disciplinary institutions — "Discipline and Punish" Part 3 (Panopticism)
journalJournal: Name 5 things school taught you to obey that no free man should obey
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This was 1 tier of 26.

The Seeker path alone runs five tiers deeper — the architecture of power, the empires of money and media, digital sovereignty, the deep past, and the manifesto you'll write at the end of it. Then there are four more paths: the body, the craft, the household, the canon.

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