The Horizon

I wish that the New Left Network would grow. I have created a beautiful website for people to interact in a socially propogating way, just like Facebook or Myspace. Yet it seems that no one wants to join and become active. I understand that it is an entirely new system to understand and figure out. But I guess I would have thought that people would come and learn and then try to at least become involved before falling out of the loop.

I hope that over time, this will change and people will come to the network and see how cool it is. But for now, I am stuck with just continually pushing it, on forums, on blogs, everywhere. If anyone knows of a place that would be interested in a social network targeting radicals and lefitsts, then please go and tell them about this!

The school year is coming to a close and I have a headache. That headache means quite a bit. I am getting tired of school. I am getting tired of schoolwork and I am getting tired of my head hurting because I haven’t worn my glasses all day. The meanings behind it are quite immense.
But more importantly I am sick of the school system and the ideas behind school and everything attached to what it means. I don’t want to be a functioning capitalist citizen. But it’s getting harder and harder to hold control.
Lately I have been reading blogs about finance and financial control and it’s kind of fun to keep track almost as a sort of game. But I find myself falling victem to a fiscal machine.
Recently I read about creating and organizing co-ops and I would really appreciate and love doing that. We will see.
This brings me to the next point I want to discuss: I am sick of the lack of activism in Eau Claire. I want to see it grow and be a powerful thing that everyone knows and understands and sees as necessary. But those are some intense goals. This means that I will have to truly focus. I intend to use this summer without school work to get involved and start organizing such things. Eventually, I would like to see the next lease I sign be one for a cooperative with people that are willing to combine and work together. We will see if this happens, but it is certainly I goal that I have.
On another note, I have been working on the hopefully new flipside website. I am not even the webmaster but I really want to see this happen. It will make editing and even publishing our issues easier and more involved with the internet.
Otherwise, I am off. I think that I can get my glasses and get cleaned up after a day of volleyball, soccer and a lot of heat.