<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # Autonomy is the lesser half of the case. Substrate... > Autonomy is the lesser half of the case. Substrate repatriation secures the chips, the power, the fabs and the weights, so that the carrier can be built, operated and replaced at home. Authorship is the greater half: the definitions, defaults, evaluation standards and historical summaries the carrier returns when the world asks it what the West is. **Source:** [[articles/war with empire/Authorship of the West|Authorship of the West]], [[working/authorship-west-extraction-markup-20260922/postimages/articles/war with empire/Authorship of the West|Authorship of the West]], [[working/authorship-west-reminder-links-repair-20260922/postimages/articles/war with empire/Authorship of the West|Authorship of the West]], [[working/authorship-west-reminder-links-repair-20260922/preimages/articles/war with empire/Authorship of the West|Authorship of the West]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “Autonomy is the lesser half of the case. Substrate repatriation secures the chips, the power, the fabs and the weights, so that the carrier can be built, operated and replaced at home. Authorship is the greater half: the definitions, defaults, evaluation standards and historical summaries the carrier returns when the world asks it what the West is.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-autonomy-lesser-half-world-asks-west ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->