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Our Homeless America
At the present time, all the media networks are blaring out the good news.
Everybody please pay attention! We care!
Don't believe it? There are X-number of Free Thanksgiving Meals being served at X-number churches in your area. Or maybe it is X-number community halls. And X-number of charities and fraternities and sororities are handing out gift-bags filled with healthcare items. And X-number of nonprofits are also giving away piles and piles of fluffy coats this year, too!
What's not to like about America? We CARE about the homeless!
Buddhist Master Li writes in Lecture 6 that sometimes, giving is not all it's meant to be. It's not that giving is not good. We are all thankful that like never before, mixed in with the salacious news stories are human-interest stories about the homeless receiving their very first something for the first time.
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Most of the social workers consider themselves blessed to be able to give so much as part of their careers. In fact, like never before, this area has lots of social workers. They seem to thrive whenever there is a sanctuary city.
But can they really put themselves in your place?
I doubt they can. This is from close contact with quite a few recently. Actually most are well-meaning. However at the shelter they really get some mean ones for some reason. And at the churches they have some very dithery types as well, who seem to mistake your visit for one purpose as an excuse to address all your problems (as they see it) in one fell swoop.
Sweeping generalizations have never been more rife in America!
Thanks to our highly technological society there is no longer any real need for learning. What we now call learning is more like rote-situational learning. You learn what you need to pass a test, and then forget all about it. Same goes with ethics, social mores, social justice, and all the rest. (In fact, I am convinced that all this massive display of charity is at least partly associated with community based learning and volunteering for college credits.)
Here is one example. So if I happen to be wearing a vest that says:
Street Sense Media, Help the Homeless Help themselves!
The minute I don my vest, my prestige in society takes a massive dive.
Suddenly everyone on the train realizes "She's homeless!" People look at me with chagrin, pity, contempt, loathing, despair. Some guys think I am "free for the taking."She's a free, liberated homeless woman, boys! Ha-ha!
You can imagine if I were a lot younger that there might even be a few pimp types, men or women, trying to direct me to sell my body for some sex-work. NEVER do the brunt of the average unreasoning consumerist-obsessed Americans wonder:
Could she be volunteering for a good cause?
No, most Americans WANT to jump to a NEGATIVE conclusion about me wearing the vest.
HEY WHITEY, YOU ARE HOLDING A DRINK! YOU MUST BE AN ALCOHOLIC!
That's what I want to say to these oafish louts who pass by, never bothering to stop or even ask a question. They are too busy dealing with their addictions.
THERE YOU ARE WHITEY, BACK AT STARBUCKS AGAIN, SOME DRUG ADDICT!
Americans also no longer think about Whole Foods, Inc. being bought by a slave-driving type entity who exploits workers so he can pretend he is one of the world's richest guys. They don't think about how often the chain lies about foods that are not as wholesome, organic, or fair-trade as they claim. For one thing, most of the chefs and food-workers at Whole Foods often appear harried, so overworked and underpaid, while faced with the bevy of Oh-So-Cool-I-Must-Be-to-Be-Here shoppers. But of course the hipsters are there to look cool, and so it doesn't really matter what is hiding in the back there. Just keep being blind about it.
Everything is under control, said Hal.
In fact, most of the hipsters can't even recall a time when people protested, demonstrated, and lobbied for Earth Day, for environmental food protections, for adequate labeling, for fair wages, for jobs with union pay and conditions, and for paid holidays.
👄 HIPSTERS LIVE ON CLOUD 9. THEY HAVE NO TIME TO CONNECT WITH REAL PEOPLE. 👄
We are all around you, bubba, but you can't be bothered looking around, you are so busy texting while you walk in your cute $100 sneakers. You can't see an African-American except for what he represents: dollar value lent to the developer so your building is now one of the fanciest. All those African Americans around you are just value-laden investment globules for when you sell out.
In fact, in our homeless America, Americans have become blind to all but the good fortune of success. They don't think, they don't reason, they stare at little tablets, iphones, and boob tubes, while cramming more tasteless overpriced food down their gut.
But here is THE SECRET IF YOU ARE A STREET SENSE VENDOR:
They ARE watching you! Having fought and clawed their way up to the Greatest Capital on Earth, they are filled with Schadenfreude. They WANT desperately for you to feel frustrated, lose your cool, become angry. THAT WILL MAKE THEM CRY WITH KARMIC SATANIC JOY. 👿
BECAUSE THEY LOST THEIR SENSE OF HUMANITY A LONG, LONG TIME AGO. ALL THAT NOW MAKES THEM FEEL HUMAN IS GETTING OFF MAKING SURE HOW EVERYONE SEES HOW VERY disengaged, smug, simpering, correct, appropriate, conformist, craven, consumerist they are. They KNOW their function is to HELP LEND A LESS DEMOCRATIC ATMOSPHERE, if not destroy the black democratic voting base, so that there really is no longer much of any kind of democratic party system in America.
And they won't do anything ever except conform, clap happy hands to the T.V., weep when told to, and adopt an air of philanthropy once a year when everyone else says it's time to.
SO PLEASE, DON'T LOSE YOUR COOL. WHEN EVERYONE BECOMES A DISASTER VICTIM, AS WORLD WAR III WILL SOON MAKE US ALL, EVEN THE SS WILL BE FED UP WITH THEIR SILLY GOOSESTEPPING CLOWN-CAPITALIST NARCISSISM.
