title: The Ecologic Secession
author:  L. E. Modesitt Jr. 
description: The culmination of the Ecolitan Trilogy. Spanning the human galaxy, the Empire is all-powerful: no human or alien forces have been able to stand against its power. But now, on the planet Accord, the Ecolitan Institute bids fair to challenge the might of the Empire, at last.
zlib_text: gene  youngblood
  s e c e s s i o n 
  f r o m  
  t h e 
  b r o a d c a s t
  
  Worlds have changed since this 2012 lecture in the fabled capitol, 
  Buenos Aires. Then, secession meant alternative media. Today it 
  means alternative worlds. It means using artificial intelligence and 
  social immersive media to construct virtual destination-worlds that 
  enable secession from the Broadcast—leaving a culture without 
  leaving its country—at planetary scale. It heralds the new era of 
  civilization I call The Build.
  Secession means changing our minds in depth to become the kind of 
  people who will be capable of meeting the challenge to create at the 
  same scale as we can destroy. Secession is counter-socialization—
  the subjective redefinition of world, self, and reality. It’s more than 
  consciousness raising; it’s the total reconstruction of consciousness. 
  It is comparable to religious conversion, psychotherapy or other 
  lifechanging experiences in which an individual switches worlds 
  through radical 