Right on pete.

Christina, now are these bunnies for cooking? I can hunt and cook the bunnies. But I won't do the dishes.

can we have bunnies on our commune?

i have not written on blogger in a long time. I don't know why. i think i forgot it existed.
Then i went on the other day and it diddnt work... but it works now. Do i have anything
to write? Yes i do. I am asking people why they get out of bed because i am going to
write a dandy motivational speech on why we should get out of bed in the morning for
public speaking. It's gonna rock. If i ever get it done. Lots of people gave me good
reasons why they get out of bed and i could fill up pages and pages and pages, but its
only supposed to be ten minutes long, so i have to chop some stuff out of it. ... ...

ive been thinking about society a lot lately. And what makes a life what it is... and the type
of lifestyle americans are directed towards. And i have decided it's a rather lonely one.
We are expected to choose a person. One person of the opposite sex to be the only
one... the only one to keep us company... and we are expected to go with that person
to a big, empty american house in the suburbs with lots of stuff in it that we have all to
ourselves. The stuff is expected to keep us company. But it wont. So if we want some
company, we are expected to make some babies... and babies are nice sometimes, and
necessary... i guess. But there are definately too many babies out there right now...
and... sometimes you probably want a community of grownups instead of one grownup
and a bunch of kids. And the kids... they grow up without a community of kids... at least
not in the home... and since we need to work to fill the house with stuff, the kids are
raised by the stuff and not us... perpetuating the cycle. So... i have decided i don't want
that. I don't want any of that lonely nonsense. I want a community. I want to live with
people and interact with them and share food, work, land, woods, gardens, fire, home
and life with them. Somehow, in my little cinder block room in my rectangular brick dorm
at Knox, i am happier than i ever was in my big, beautiful, old, empty victorian house. I
have a community. I look forward to going home.

In my study of the 1960's last spring,
the most important lesson i learned is that the personal is political. The progress that
was made in civil rights and other areas in the 1960's did not stem from beaureacrats
sitting in thier ivory towers making decisions. Change came from ordinary people doing
ordinary... yet revolutionary things. Sitting at the front of a bus... sitting at a lunch
counter... walking through the national mall in Washington... enormous, earth-shaking
changes came from normal people, doing normal, everyday things... in thier own way. I
am a libertarian hippy. The type of world i want is not homoginized, pasturized, sterile,
and dull. It is not a totalitarian regime. It is not brave new world. It is not a perfected
machine. It is not a lonely crowd. But this is the direction the world is headed in. For
many years i felt that what i should do with my life entailed running for political office in
an attempt to get my political views heard and perhaps spread. Then, i realized that i
personally could not handle the hectic, chaotic, (and despicable) kind of life led by
politicians. A long period of hopelessness followed this realization. But now i am
beginning to see that the strongest political boss has no power compared to the will of
the people. Right now, the will of the people is television, junk food, and war... but the
will of the people is ever-changing. And the best method i can see for changing the will
of the people is to lead by example. I have decided a good place to start is with housing.
I think it makes more sense to have many families (or, one big "family") live in one big
house surrounded by property than to have one family each in a seperate, big, empty
house on its own little property leaving no room for woods and gardens and other
beautiful things. So if i can, that's how i will live my life... and hopefully... the people will
notice... and some change may take place.

More than any other possibility in life, i think
this will make me happy. I may not seem like the type of person who would hold this
belief. I am far from a communist and far from one to socialize unless forced. I tend to be
rather stowik and rarely express love for anyone. But the truth is that i notice and
cherish all the people around me.. who they are... what they do... what they like. And
many of them, (especially those reading this blogger) i do not want to loose once i leave
Knox. Arie mentioned it the other day... "everyone" living together after graduation...
and i was secretly overjoyed to find that someone else was thinking about this as well. I
don't really know who "everyone" is... but i hope beyond hope that somehow,
sometime, it will happen.