Aztec ideas of training one's moral strength and steadiness have something in common with what I've learned from my own campaigning.

I can confirm point 1 directly. When I choose to strive for freedom and justice in the world, it's not that I expect that having more freedom and justice myself will make me personally happier. On the contrary, there are defeats and failures and they hurt. But overall, my life is worth something because of working for a goal beyond my own happiness.

Points 6 expresses very clearly something that the long struggle for software freedom has more or less aught me. And it probably applies to any other political cause that requires a struggle that isn't over soon.

Points 7 and 8 are directly related to firm rejection of nonfree software. By doing that, I have built that rejection into a habit which helps me keep doing it. And years of finding ways to do various things without running nonfree software, because I refuse to run the nonfree software, has taught me that the resulting inconvenience is manageable.

I suspect that this wisdom literature was older than the short-lived Aztec empire and that they inherited it from previous civilizations in the Valley of Mexico.

US citizens: Tell the Starbucks CEO that you won’t cross the picket line.

See the instructions for how to sign this letter campaign without running any nonfree JavaScript code—not trivial, but not hard.

US citizens: call on the US Surface Transportation Board to block the Union Pacific-Norfolk Southern Mega-Merger.

US citizens: call on Congress to continue to require confirmation hearings for the heads of US spy agencies, so it can impose at least minimal accountability in how they spy on Americans.

The Climate Analytics report asserts that governments' climate defense plans are inadequate, but that it isn't too late to avoid global disaster if we increase them.

The biggest challenges will be to convince the governments of China and the US, and the banks and billionaires that dominate the latter.