Calculus realised that in moving to Mount Wilders he could fulfil the same wish that Coleridge had had for his son; to nourish freedom of movement in both a physical and mental sense. At certain altitudes the conventions of a mercantile and digital society cease to apply. There are no walls, no fences. Literally and figuratively.
Calculus was not alone in having this insight.
You can broadly bracket the people moving to the region of Wilders as belonging to the alternative kind. Society drop ups, misfits and idealists, all heading for the hills with hope in their hearts and drugs in their backpacks.
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