Submitted by jab116 t3_10czqgc in nottheonion
FirebirdWriter t1_j4knpid wrote
Reply to comment by rainbowstriper in Neighbors say store uses loud opera music to push away homeless by jab116
Why would anyone fantasize about being homeless? This isn't asked in anger but genuine confusion. It is a desperate time where you are invisible unless someone is either going to try to help you which is rare or is a danger to you. Not a fun fantasy.
Beautiful_Marketing6 t1_j4kqnso wrote
Eh, I did when I was young. Till I actually got homeless. Plenty of people romanticize it.
Plenty of morning I woke to the sun on a rooftop with a view of the city.
But I slept on rooftops because the rapists came out at night.
FirebirdWriter t1_j4kqwdd wrote
Yeah Marie Antoinette did similar things. I don't understand and did not before I was homeless but I appreciate your reminder that this is a thing. It's just absolutely foreign to me which is why I asked for clarification. It's simpler to just ask sometimes. Also the shelters were much worse than the roofs for sure. I kept a fork from dinner one night and put it to good use because I was tired of hearing the assaults and noticed the placement patterns so decided to maim someone. It gave us a whole week off of that. Incase your brain requires some vindication juice (blood vindication juice is blood)
Beautiful_Marketing6 t1_j4kr4pq wrote
I wish I could say shelters were a good resource but it's trifling in the streets. I don't think people realize how cunning, devious, and feral a human can actually be.
FirebirdWriter t1_j4krff9 wrote
Not until they're in a position to. I think actually a lot of our scary stories from history are not really monsters but coping mechanisms and training tools that let people prepare for the worst of humanity. That's my coping mechanism for it anyway. I know exactly what I am capable of and it is terrifying. It is also comforting to know at my physical lowest I can still also destroy someone if I need to survive but the price is unpleasant to say the least. If people all knew at all times there would be a lot of people who couldn't cope and would break down causing some very real chaos in society. It's to our benefit that ignorance on this topic exists to a degree. It also does harm but I don't think society would survive as we know it if most people knew. That might not be a bad thing but it could be.
Beautiful_Marketing6 t1_j4krpmt wrote
Yea it's different. But corporations are just as bad amirite! š¤£š
FirebirdWriter t1_j4krtpp wrote
I mean they're worse in my.non joking answer to your joke. They're the root of most modern badness including homelessness. We have the technology to feed and house everyone and give everyone medicine. Corporations work very hard to criminalize that to force profit. It's as if those feral people are in charge
rainbowstriper t1_j4ko4e1 wrote
I never said anyone was fantasizing about being homeless. I just thought āhomeless meā was supposed to mean āif I was homeless and in that scenarioā. I just misunderstood what you meant, itās not that deep. I know being homeless isnāt a fun fantasy, that would be weird.
FirebirdWriter t1_j4koay6 wrote
Thank you for answering my question. I appreciate that since it's not a simple topic. I figured just asking was better than assuming the worst. I refer to my past selves like that often. Kid me, adult me. It's not caused this sort of misunderstanding before but I will keep that in mind
rainbowstriper t1_j4koil0 wrote
Oh ok well that makes sense because I refer to myself in other situations as that situation me. So thatās where the confusion came in.
FirebirdWriter t1_j4kokts wrote
I understand. Also why I asked in part because everyone's got a different baseline for language and internal association
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