The Principal of the Commonwealth is current serving in the role of Grand Minister. You can contact him at (email): principal (at) commonwealthofapodidomia (dot) evolutionofconsent (dot) com
William Schnack, the Organizer and Founder of the General Mission, stands as Principal of the Commonwealth, and, by extension, Grand Minister (and many other roles) of the General Mission of the Provisional Autoteletic, Henocentric, and Conautarkic Ambiarchy of the Commonwealth of Apodidomia.
William comes primarily from the already highly-pluralistic mutualist tradition. Mutualism has been given various other, oftentimes paradoxical labels, such as “libertarian socialist,” “voluntary socialist,” “social individualist,” and other such titles. Critical of communism, capitalism, and nationalism, especially in involuntary forms (which he contests are the only forms they can realistically take, but desires nonetheless to enable if possible), it tends to eschew external constitutions of social power (commonly understood as “the state”) in favor of the identity and balance of forces into a just equilibrium. This is to be achieved through the conscious application of, and adherence to, sociological and economic principles, wishing to thereby locally and lawfully dissolve or subsume the power of the state through the utilization of natural laws placed into the hands of civil society that render it null and obsolete.
William's interests extend beyond mutualism as it has been commonly understood, so as to include an interest in pre-mutualist or contemporaneous conceptions of radical liberalism (especially Ricardian socialism, voluntaryism, and panarchism), federalism, constitutionalism, hamarchy, and republicanism, a wide interest in social and American individualist anarchism, as well as some Marxist, nationalist, and Georgist, and other conceptions. His works have been published by libertarians, Marxists, and nationalists alike. Quite the synthesist, he has found a way for concepts drawn from these various traditions to synergize rather than have friction with one another. His Grand Imperative has been to utilize as many voluntary and consensal tactics of direct-action as can possibly be employed to lawfully establish a more Free, Equal, and Just society.
Always the pluralist, and active in libertarian socialist and anarchist organizations, in his younger years William organized local events from the General Membership Branch of the Industrial Workers of the World that he had co-founded, and then from a general mutual aid collective that he formed. These events involved festivals in which local groups as diverse as Socialist, Green, and Libertarian groups co-mingled, setting up tables to promote their organizations and recruit, and each having time at the microphone to promote their organizations and the kinds of activites they were engaged in. These activities all occurred alongside cultural activites, including a musical performances from a diverse array of genres, and free vegan food that was offered for self-preparing over a fire pit outdoors. There were no incidences of violence or confrontation.
William also organized and co-founded a peer-instructed school of philosophy and mysticism, where members of the local community taught one another about their various intellectual interests from within the Josiah Warren Library, the General Headquarters of the mutual aid collective. William is also a lay or folk natural philosopher, having written a 1,000-page book on the philosophy of mutualism and 100 or so accompanying articles on related topics. He has been featured on a number of podcasts, including Primo Nutmeg, and has given numerous lectures, including at his own school, to University students, and in such places as in a Unitarian Universalist Church and an anarchist bookstore. Further, he has authored an economic board game, and has prototype computer applications that he has designed. To top things off, William has been accumulating skills related to homesteading, including operating a farm tractor, rearing livestock and bees, growing produce, and more. He is overskilled and historically underutilized. His skills, knowledge, and motivation to exit the rat race lend themselves well to the creation of an economy built from scratch. And his pluralistic sensibilities make him the right man for the job.