I want to write a story. A story about some colonialists who land and settle a new planet that turns out to be difficult to inhabit. Meanwhile the motley group of settlers have to deal with inner conflicts that raise theological, philosophical and political questions that haven't been given much recognition in our current world.
However, I also want to explore my love for law. Figure out whether I want to go to law school and get a degree in law that I can use to help non-profits/charities/underprivileged individuals.
At the same time I want to be involved in a community, in my surrounding community. I'd like to surround myself with friends who I can continue to talk about things that swim in my brain and desire melodic-form. I'd like to facilitate and propagate a culture of cooperation.
Meanwhile I've started to read Loaves and Fishes by Dorothy Day and got to send my subscription to the Catholic Worker itself (25 cents for 1 year subscription!)
I'd like to share some verses from Peter Maurin's Easy Essays would espouse back in the 30's (Peter Maurin helped found the Catholic Worker with Dorothy Day).
People go to Washington
asking the government
to solver their economic problems,
while the Federal government
was never intended
to solve men's economic problems.
Thomas Jefferson says that
the less government there is
the better it is.
If the less government there is,
the better it is,
then the best kind of government
is self-government.
If the best kind of government
is self-government,
then the best kind of organization
is self-organization.
When the organizers try
to organize the unorganized,
then the organizers
don't organize themselves.
And when the organizer
don't organize themselves,
nobody organizes himself,
and when nobody organizes himself
nothing is organized.
The Catholic unemployed
should not be sent to the Muni
[municipal lodging house].
The Catholic unemployed
should be given hospitality
in Catholic Houses of Hospitality.
Catholic Houses of Hospitality
are known in Europe
under the name of hospices.
There have been hospices in Europe
since the time of Constantine.
Hospices are free guest houses;
hotels are paying guest houses.
And paying guest houses or hotels
are as plentiful
as free guest houses or hospices
are scarce.
So hospitality, like everything else,
has been commercialized.
So hospitality, like everything else,
must now be idealized.
A Case for Utopia
The world would be better off
if people tried to become better,
and people would become better
if they stopped trying to become better off.
For when everything tries to become
better off
nobody is better off.
But when everyone tries to become better
everybody is better off.
Everyone would be rich
if nobody tried to become richer,
and nobody would be poor
if everybody tried to be the poorest.
And everybody would be what he ought to be
if everyone tried to be
what he wants the other fellow to be.
