summer summary

I started blogging on homelessnation to connect with my peers & come to terms with my outrage over poverty & homelessness in order to move forward in my life without carting around a shitload of baggage I can do little or nothing about.

I think it's important for the "homeless community" to share experiences with each other because there's no forum (particularly for single parent families) to discuss the poverty we experience, the stigma of our plight & the social isolation that often accompanies it.

We can of course visit the guaranteed liveable income website to familiarize ourselves with a humane alternative to support & promote; one that's not at all far fetched as all the political parties support it, & most people also anticipate an economic "meltdown" before long. But I realize that it's impossible to fatham ideals in the thick of poverty like when you're living on the streets or raising kids under dire straits.

And it's a tragic that more families & youth become homeless all the time &/or struggle to survive under impoverished circumstances. It's not just older men & women who lose their jobs to company downsizing & end up homeless &/or otherwise impoverished. Increasing numbers of young single people are also unable to support themselves, let alone consider having families, in our alleged "gig economy" - a term that does not make the dire circumstances of poverty groovy by any stretch of the imagination.

I also feel that it's very important for homelessness and poverty to be spoken about by those of us who've diectly experienced it because the general public is constantly deluged with corporate media propaganda about us that's used to justify a brutal economic system that by in large trashes surplus labour in the streets & blames the victims for their/our plight & does not even include mothers in the GDP Gross Domestic Product, so we basically function as slave labour while we supply the unjust, antiquated economy with another generation of workers & more fodder for military exploitation.

I can't speak for how the info homelessnation provides is used by anyone except myself. I can only speculate about whether our disclosures are used for legitimate purposes such as the development of economic reforms that involve policies and practices to eliminate homelessness and poverty.

Conversly, there are more people than we'd like to imagine who relish in the oppression of others. I discovered that several cultures have a word that defines the enjoyment derived from the misery of others; that's not to say that this anomaly of nature (if it can rightly be called on anomaly) is limited to the cultures that have a desgnated term for this debauchery. Perhaps humanity would not deliberately cause others and themselves so much misery and pain if it wasn't for this ghastly anomaly. But it certainly confirms my suspicions that anthropologists rightly attribute our nature to that of anthropoids, and consider us the missing link, as opposed to being evolved human beings.

I've certainly learned some interesting surprising things (mostly about myself) from my participation on this site so I've appreciated the opportunity to re-assess a few more of my faulty assumptions & trash a few more of illusions as well as endeavour to lighten up in the process.

One can't cart a shitload of misery up a mountain indefinitely without letting go of most of it.

So cheers! And victory over horseshit!