Freedom, also defined as liberty, is an important factor in American culture. But the idea of cognitive liberty, where an individual has control over one's own mind and what it experiences, is not as strongly emphasized. This type of liberty can include the ability to achieve heightened states of consciousness that has usually been achieved through many years of meditation. Technology has caught up to such a degree as to allow people to provoke such states very quickly and easily. This is a perfect example of cognitive liberty that is also a fulfillment of a larger project of social liberty.

 
John Berkey is a well renowned artist who has made beautiful art depicting deep space as well as the concept art for the Star Wars movies. Here is his depictions of the cities of the future, which match his artistic vision of spaceships in space as being both large and majestic.

 
The social type of the nerd is a very unique and varied identity. For some time it meant someone who was outside of popular culture, but gradually the nerd has emerged as a valid culture. In some respects it can be described as a new counterculture. The drawback to a counterculture status is that it can eventually be absorbed by popular culture and become a commodified lifestyle that betrays its original purpose. The heart of being a nerd is as someone who not only loves knowledge for its own sake, but an absolute refusal to be popular. The growth of nerd culture must always be aware of its primary roots.

 
Ray Brassier has worked within the field of speculative realism by elaborating on the work of Francois Laruelle. In order to separate human thinking from an external reality and present them as independent from each other, there needs to be an understanding of how transcendence emerges from absolute immanence. There is not only an immanence of reality in itself, but an immanence that is the relationship between reality and its structures. These structures in themselves are also immanent. Transcendence occurs when a decision is made that comes between the external immanence of reality and the internal immanence of structures. Transcendence is a retroactive subsumption of reality by structures and a divergence of external immanence and internal immanence. The fact of reality before experience becomes linked to the data of reality after experience through transcendence, and the independent dispassionate inhumanity of material reality is ignored.

 
The nature of rules and how they exist can reveal how both an economy and the law will operate. A rule exists as both thought and action, and would be meaningless if thought and action were separated. A thought needs to be expressed in the world, and an action must be structured by a preexisting thought. In relation to this, an economy is both theory before experience and practice after experience. And a law is not an overarching and artificial principle alone but must be produced, renewed, and articulated by social interaction.