james:
“about five years ago, four like-minded friends and i began to deposit money into a joint bank account on a monthly basis. there was no fixed sum that we each had to relinquish, we just had to give whatever we could. we called it ‘progress insurance’. we had decided amongst ourselves that the world was not progressing as quickly as we had wished. so we came to an agreement. if the world did not progress far enough in the next twenty years, we would create a commune in some remote part of the world where we need rarely worry about human culture and activity. right now, i won’t talk about how we’ve viewed the first five years. for better or worse, there is still time.”
