The Library

But, more than a privately owned resort or a non-profit retreat center, The Wagon Box is forging a new kind of place. It will be owned by a distributed community of thoughtful men and serve as an intergenerational commonwealth of conversation, learning, adventure, and investment, as well as an oasis of art, music, and story.The old social fabric of small-town and urban burroughs has been shredded by a series of new technologies. Vast impersonal hedge funds are absorbing neighborhoods and turning them into rent machines. Cottage industry itself has been turned into an international commodity, and the political apparatus is largely a system for converting fear and confusion into control. And yet there must always remain hope. Nostalgic laments, anti-technological and anti-corporate vitriol get us nowhere. We must forge new institutions within these realities that are based in gratitude and rooted in loyalty and connection. The Wagon Box will be a project along these lines, but also a place where folks can have this conversation of how to live sanely in strange times, and how to work together toward a bright and heavenly future.