um... What? in Journal

  • May 29, 2019, 1 a.m.
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I feel like the world is devolving into some kind of funhouse musical horror seseme street of feel-good narcissism.
A grown adult woman whom I respect (older than moi) posted this article along with a wave of virtue signaling diatribe about the poor homeless people; https://invisiblepeople.tv/making-eye-contact-with-homeless-people-is-important/?fbclid=IwAR11I_5CANPjcc5BIjEpawa1sjQ0U6XC5ksSiblVRnzjsUjuoEYJZCWmcaY
I really like to read; and I love to write. I daresay I’m quite good at it, too.
But this. This is some of the worst writing I’ve ever seen in my life. I’m questioning the woman who posted it as I read, dumbfounded; did she even read the article? Can she read? Did she not see past the most obvious, the most glaring emotional language, complete lack of reason or evidence?
There is absolutely no content in this entire article! That is a true accomplishment; this writer has got to be sitting down to a self congratulatory steak dinner about now. Selling complete drivel that people will actually waste their time on.
Everyone, repeat after me. Feelings are not an argument.

SO WHAT IF HOMELESS PEOPLE FEEL OSTRICIZED? Obviously no one gives a shit, or they would do something about it.

[talking of ignoring homeless people] “It’s a common behavior, but what’s strange is the number of people who don’t fully realize what they’re doing.”
This writer offers absolutely no evidence and that is aggravating- this line above is possibly his/her “experience”.
I’d argue that people know exactly what they’re doing.
We didn’t evolve for several billion years to waste our time and energy on people who do not share our values. And that is fundamentally what a homeless person is;
Most homeless people are homeless because of poor personal decisions:
“Among those with the highest scores (8 or more on a 17-point scale), more than half who temporarily resolved their own housing situations or went to live with family ended up homeless again.” via https://youthtoday.org/2018/11/chapin-hall-report-finds-homelessness-risk-assessment-tool-highly-accurate/
How easy was that? Type in “risk of homelessness” into your favorite search engine and viola! Information based on evidence. Whoo! That was tough.

So. We’ve established that people don’t care about homeless people for good reason, and that homeless people typically are homeless by choice.

Great. Let’s have a pity-party for the homeless to make ourselves feel better about the situation, shall we?


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