Also, can you e-mail me your phone number? I was going to call you earlier today, but I couldn’t find it. I thought I would recognize it in the incoming call list by the area code, but I was wrong.

Better than imagining a free society what you and your friends are doing is far more important than imagining. By living as much of your creed as you can and blogging about it, you are documenting your very on little experiment and letting the results speak for themselves. I really do look up to you for doing it. Not to mention you give me a great micro-vacation option that I need to exercise more often.
You and I are both atheists who were done wrong by the catholic church, but I think the early Roman christians might provide a good example of how to guide society more in the direction you want. When they were in their insurgency period, they took Roman society over by the success of their charity and of building individuals up in a society that specialized in tearing them down. Building is always no lose game. Even when you’re thrown to the gladiators. Look at how the Iraqi resistance was organized right under the Americans nose in the mass prisons where well over 90% of the inmates were not aligned with the resistance at all. Likewise it was not American success in the battlefield that chased the British away, it was American success in the farm fields, shops, and early industry. Ah, so my vision…..
I would expect that a society would be more free if individuals were willing to establish some degree of physical independence to balance out our current out of balance, interdependence. And to help each other do that. After 6 years of self industrializing I have to admit that this process is much harder than I thought it would be. And I seemed to notice from my visit out there, that for many reason you all are meeting with difficulties. But again like I said, it’s a direct measure of the difficulty of the problem, and when a set of solutions are found, that success will speak for itself and act as an example to guild peoples visions and expectations. Whether you like it or not, you’re a vanguard.