Homelessness is a sign of the failure of a society [see photo]. To me it is a sign of the public squalor that is currently being condoned by us all. This phenomenon is increasing not decreasing. Go figure....
Well... I would like to try to figure this out. This syndrome is not new it has been around since the 1960s when the "flower-power people" spread their version of love. I say their version of love because the key feature of it idea, narrative, or fantasy was the lack of discipline the group accepted from all participants. Well as it turns out that sixty years on this version of love has spawned and unrelenting rash of homelessness.
The core idea embedded in flower-power is that we should love everyone even if they lack the discipline needed to provide a home for themselves. But there is another element to all this that is worth a mention. In the 1960s the role of government expanded into areas of social welfare that have persisted even today. The core notion was, and perhaps still is, that governments should take care of all of us who are not able to provide fully for ourselves. And the key to the expansion of government in this, and other critical, areas of social life was naturally premised on the fact that we live in a democracy. The concept being that the population elects "representatives" a Congress to define the issues and then to pass laws that benefit the majority if not all in society. And things were moving along nicely until it all changed because the democracy was swapped out for a totalitarian regime
How did this change happen and what has it meant for all of us? Well the real change occurred when representatives became delegates. Delegates of unions, commerce, technologists, coalitions of interest, banks, etc. Delegates are those who seek to use the instruments of government to reward the segment of society which put them in power. Thus these people became the tool by which those who seek unfettered control of the wealth, power, and genius rose to power within our society. They became a Unified Elite who think and act as one in the interest of the powerful not the meek.
What does all this have to do with the rapid increase of homelessness? The fact is the dispossessed have not delegates. There are no delegates for the children stranded on the Gaza Strip. There are no delegates for the unemployed who lost their jobs, business, or access to a living due to the Covid-19 lockdowns imposed by those in power. There are no delegates for those who oppose the oppression of individual freedom that comes with a Vaccine Passport. There are no delegates in a One Party State where the same incompetents get elected time and time again and go onto to appoint incompetent people to manage national, regional, and local budgets. There are no delegates for the future generation who are going to live through, and be forced to sort out, the mess brought on by long bouts of inflation or deflation which is the direct result of poor debt management. There are no delegates for discipline, civility, deviants, geniuses, creatives, dissidents, etc.
Richard.
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