Activists poured concrete all over some "anti-homeless spikes" this morning

[woo me with science]

83. I wish I could rec individual posts.

I can't count the number of people I've heard in the past several years express deep distress over what's happening to their lives, but what alarms me most is how much of it ends up aimed at themselves. Millions have been pushed underwater, yet everyone seems to feel alone and responsible for their own situation. There is something deeply wrong in our messaging when smart, capable, moral people are blaming themselves individually for mass societal distress that our corrupt political system has actively created.

Thanks for articulating this. We need a sea change in our understanding of what government is and what we have a right to expect from it. In a country with the wealth of the United States of America - or even in a country WITHOUT the wealth of America - there is no moral justification for dealing with poverty by putting spikes in public spaces where the homeless sleep. It is sick and inhumane and a perversion of everything we are capable of doing and have a responsibility to do. It is a statement on how far into sickness this nation has been pushed that we need to remind people how sick it really is.

I'd love to see that essay, too.