Whatif insteadof filingforan IPOor removingacquiredby Yahoo,the endgameforany startupwasto turn unconstrained—to turn unconditionally eccentricofthe landthat birthedit?Whatif Silicon Valley becameitsown city-state filledwith adults ferriedaboutby Uber cars, vitalin rented homes rentedon Airbnb?Thisisthe prophesyof Balaji Srinivasan, co-founderof genetics company Counsyland Stanford lecturer.

“We didn’t securitize mortgages, sequence bailouts, [or]start wars.”

In the speak patrician“Silicon Valley’s‘Ultimate Exit’” hostedby startup accelerator Y Combinator final week, Srinivasan outlinedhisideafor the self-sustaining, insulated“experiment”wherewe’d live underneath the supervisionrunby Silicon Valley.Hedescribesthis illusory multitudeas“opt-in,”asifitwerethe ultimate underlineof the singleofthe Valley’s most startups. ”We didn’t securitize mortgages, sequence bailouts, [or]start wars,” reads the singleof Srinivasan’s slides. Valleywag‘s Nitasha Tiku points outthat Uber doesn’townitsown cars,and Airbnb doesn’townitsown housesand apartments.“Thisisthe Tea Partywith improved gadgets,”she writes.Whatabout taxes? Infrastructure? Basic services?“Youcan’t 3-D-print the highway,or rise the cancer diagnosiswith the Fitbit band,” notesNew York Magazine‘s Kevin Roose, the anxietyto open serviceslikethe CDC, glow department,and militarythat suchan examinationwould forsake.

Inother words, Silicon Valley needsthe restofthe nationto survive,as taxpayersand consumers. Nowifonly Srinivasan’s anticipation sounded some-morelike Larry Page’s ”Google Island,”or Elon Musk’splanned Mars Colony,whichhe cites,hecould convincesome peopletoatleast crowd-fundtheidea. Inthe Valley, sellingis everything.