Also related: The fascinating Mincome experiment
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This is one area in which secular folks owe a hat-tip to church-based nonprofits like the one providing these free haircuts. Agree with their faith or not, church-going people seem to make up more than their share of Americans actually hitting the streets to help the homeless.
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Why do they need to hide under a bridge in the first place? Why are they prevented from voting? With this criterion, the only people who are ever represented are those who refuse nomadism.
Saying that people are mentally ill because they donât fit into some system which others find convenient is disingenuous.
Great, Iâm a story! I bet that will get me recognized as having lots of agency in making my life decisions. I have been quite happily homeless. Right now I am living in a squat, a semi-normal arrangement, but I resent it. I was pressured into this for family reasons which are not very sound, by people who are neither fit nor smart, simply because they are conditioned a certain way.
This is what I think because itâs based upon my own experience.
Who are âweâ? Many groups structure society to reward the behaviors they desire to see, and punish those they do not. Western countries tend to frame nomadism in the rest of the world as a quaint way of living. But living the same way in these same western countries is treated like disease or insanity. Still, in a society where people are supposedly free to choose how to live, an elephant become apparent in the room when one chooses to live nomadically. If you want to understand how deeply systemic it is, and how strangely blind people are to how this happens, try doing it sometime. As important as people make money out to be, banks seem to think itâs far more important that I have an address.
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Itâs naive to think that how people look doesnât make an impression. How could we possibly go through life not using signals from the world around us as heuristics to make assumptions? Yes there are biases and yes we are conditioned. And we can transcend initial assumptions, of course. But I certainly think it would be sad to go through life feeling like an asshole simply because itâs virtually impossible not to make assumptions based on minimal information.
Looks like a group of engineers getting promoted to management
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I look like the before pics. A guy offered me half his sandwich recently. It was pretty weird.
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Back in the day there were news stories about (redneck) barbers offering free haircuts to Hippies. Is this any different?
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Good for you. Again, Iâm not against being homeless by choice. Play your cards right, and you can be a speaker at CPAC.
Except we arenât talking about you. The 1 million children who are homeless probably arenât out there do to choice. 30% of homeless have experienced domestic violence. As much as 25% are mentally ill. Many just donât make enough money to afford housing.
If the video is attempting to show that there is no difference between the homeless and the rest of society, more power to them. But I fear the takeaway for most is that all the homeless need is a good haircut and a Tony Robbins (or Joel Osteen) book to get back on their feet. I think it can be read either way.
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You should have glared at him & said âYou eat MEAT!!?? BARBARIAN!!!â
I donât believe voluntary nomadism is the same as homelessness. There is a huge difference between planning how you will live in a safe way then doing it, and suddenly being thrown out into the streets (or couch surfing, as I did for six months). The difference is even bigger if you were living somewhere with a hostile climate.
One sounds enjoyable, the other is far from it.
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To which the answer is,
âMmmmm, bacon, crispy bacon! And you will have none! Mwahahahahahah!â
Holy crap, look at all of that grease! I think he combed his hair with some of shaddackâs bacon!
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Such a waste of good bacon grease!
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