Chaos to Creation

Having once again had an existential change of heart (this time an epistemological one, bye bye modernism once and for all) it was only natural that chaos would once again ensue. However just like those open space people say, chaos leads to creation. Still in ephemeral form, but definable in words, here are some of my new ideas for my life, probably in no particular order nor organization, and most certainly not coherent, but still maybe more defined than EVER before (woh that’s a big deal):

Live communally (duh), in some sort of relatively self sustaining but not isolated community. Farm necessarily included. Home-schooling of children (at very least mine and the other community members, maybe more) necessarily included. Affordability, modesty and ethic, racial, religious, socioeconomic, of course gender, but maybe not age, diversity necessarily included.

Besides the sustainable functioning of the community (farming), Run a radical community center for the outside community. Preferably an underprivileged community that could benefit from the community center (complicates the location, since most farms are either in rural places with no population density or subrural privileged areas, but nevertheless, its possible, especially in California where there are more subrural underprivileged places, not just the cities). Radical community center has a sick library, after school program based on radical pedagogy, pluralist religious aspect, alternative media aspect, radical sustainable aspect and community organizing aspect.

Ok that’s the best part of whats going on in my head, live in a communal community and run a communal community center in an underprivileged community. Yay engaged but grounded and anti-capitalist localized praxis. That’s an intense 2 sentences.

Ok how I get there?: spend some time after I graduate working on a farm to learn how to farm and some other time working in a radical community center/community organizing environment like Youth Ministries for Peace and Justice (the organization where Naima is working, for those of you who know who that is). Also meet people who also want to do this. That last part sounds hard, but I already know one person who wants to/is going to do this, the other dude on this trip, Ryan. So shouldn’t be too hard. Maybe one of you out there likes this idea too, or will like it more after getting into localization when the capitalist system starts failing more and localized anti-capitalist praxis becomes more widespread. ?Or after you talk to me when I get back and read the books I will beg you to read?

This is exciting! Yayyyy. However, if it also strikes you as deeply flawed thinking (especially relating to privilege) bring it up with me pleaseeee. Don’t tell me if you think its wishful thinking though, I don’t want to hear that, because this is a DREAM and one should always have DREAMS.