Saw a TikTok about some woman asking why men have to disturb the peace of a Saturday or Sunday morning by mowing their lawn or using a leaf blower, and you would’ve thought she went on a bigoted rant by the comment section. Like damn she was just talking about how it would be nice to enjoy a peaceful morning and random commenters took it as a personal attack. Shit you not I truly believe some suburbanites would go to war over their lawn the way they treat it like a fortress to a castle.
Is this not extremely silly when you type it all out? Time is a circle and I feel like I’m a peasant under feudalism watching kings, nobles and knights protect their land like it’s under some type of threat
When homeless, would look at open spaces, abandoned buildings, and think what a waste. I would understand about homeless encampment, more understanding, found self getting way more tolerant. More forgiving. I actually got excited when seeing homeless people on streets being resourceful, building communities.
This year, finally got an studio apt. Rent controlled, many people here, including me working to recover from homelessness.
My case manager came to my apt to fix my window. I’m on the back apt building. Love location cuz it looks onto a fenced in property, undeveloped, just trees.
He looked at the space. And said what a waste, so many homeless people could be housed there.
I said, no way, then it’d get crowded, filthy, crime. It’d ruin my peace. Then I stopped. Realized, how little it took for me to go to the darkside.
it’s kinda scary honestly. we gotta be vigilant every day that our hearts don’t harden against other human beings.
Happy for you that you’re in a better position now.
Yeah, all the awful stuff I’ve been thru in recent years, overcrowded slums, surrounded by drug addicts, pedophiles, abusers. So much anger, misery, hatred, everyone tsking it out on each other. each time I got yelled at, swung at, bedroom door kicked in… I could feel the hatred, anger building in me. The pressure, overwhelming desire for retribution. Wrestled with it a lot, had to actively work at not letting it consume. To retain open-mindedness, compassion, desire to be a better person.
I can see now how hard it is for people to escape poverty. It claws at you, surrounds, at times can seem inextricable.
The person who originally coined the concept of “alpha male” wolves eventually regretted coining the concept because they realized that the observations made of such wolves were in psychologically damaging and traumatizing captivity conditions, not a healthy wolf pack.
I never forget that when I see someone being violently “alpha” out there amid squalor and suffering.
Once I became a homeowner, I had to actively practice ongoing awareness of homeless people all around me. My comfort did nothing for them, and any superficial discomfort I felt seeing them was nothing compared to what they were going through every day.
Because of that, I started deliberately walking among them and volunteering to help them while acknowledging their ongoing existence. I even passed out food directly from my driveway until
got the city on me for doing that.
we also don’t need to sacrifice more undeveloped green spaces to house everyone. that lot should be expropriated into a public space and the “filth and crime” should be averted by meeting the material needs of people so they don’t do antisocial things like litter or have to steal.
the littering would be especially easy to deal with as you really only need to provide convenient public bins around. It’s like how public defecation is a lack of public toilets. These are both such basic problems to solve
I think it’s important in that narrative that you did stop and think about that impulse. Yes, we’re extremely sensitive to the means by which our needs are met. But we’re also sensitive to our own pasts, our cultures, our relationships, etc. There are good reasons class traitors existing. There are also many good reasons to remember to be kind. I feel like that gets left out of talks about how people’s ideology relates to their position.