Not just tinker around the edges, but turn everything upside-down and innovate. Sam Conniff Allende challenges his readers to be like those golden-age pirates – to reinvent everything. These practises were initially resisted and ridiculed by the establishment before being taken up and made mainstream. They reinvented society so that, for example, everyone on board was given equal say, booty was shared fairly and those injured in service were looked after properly. Sam Conniff Allende challenges the idea that pirates at this time were violent anarchists and asserts that they blazed a trail. These pirates, the author argues, went against the conventional wisdom of the day and the norm practised by the establishment, and found new ways of working – ways that were almost always fairer and more egalitarian than society in general. I haven’t finished it yet, but the thrust of its argument is that pirates – the ones from the ‘golden age of pirates’ (around 1690 to 1725) – were the rebellious innovators of their day. I’m reading a book called Be More Pirate by Sam Conniff Allende.
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