Based on the Slate Star Codex post The Invisible Nation – Reconciling Utilitarianism And Contractualism
This song will be hard to use because either you first give the source post as a speech (in which case it’s repetitive) or you don’t (in which case it’s confusing.
Also, the dream metaphor kind of clashes with the way light and dark are used throughout the rest of solstice.
You cannot see us
You cannot hear us
But you can feel us
In your heart
You come here in a dream
And become wiser than you are
To plot out matters great and small
With friends from near and far
Here there is no strife
And here there is no treason
Game theoretic traps
All melt in fires of reason
We are the invisible Republic
Our realm extends to every feeling soul
Today our strength is scattered shards and fragments
With work some day the world may be made whole
We are the invisible Republic
Our governance is truly by consent
For every law's a wisely haggled contract
And every last pedantic clause was meant
We are the invisible Republic
And though we may not technically exist
When earthly throne and priestly crown have crumbled
Our dream will undeniably persist
Then the sun begins to rise
And the dream begins to fade
What you'll miss is not some fiat boon
But the deals your wise self made
So hold fast to what you can
And the rest re dis cov er
De duce forgotten deals
With the help of one another
And you will feel us
And you will speak us
And you will live us
In the world
