Improving myself has a resultant improving effect for the culture.

Both. As my husband and I move through the final steps of shrugging, we have always kept communication alive within at least the community interested in economics and innovation. While we were changing our life, we maintained a blog, researched and wrote a nonfiction book about the death of entrepreneurs in the US. Part of changing our own life included figuring out ways to spend more time writing. We have now completed our first collaborative fiction book, "The Pendulum of Justice," which is the first in a series illustrating the real lives lost in Big government decisions with a vigilante response.