Monday, July 22, 2013

In Madison, only the homeless are honorable

I am indeed generalizing excessively right now. So allow me to continue in that style. The trouble these days, especially in ultra-authoritarian, hyper-privileged, intellectually-warped, informer-enamored Madison: Far too many people call the police at the drop of a pin. In this sick, thoroughly gentrified town, scarcely an eyebrow is raised when "good neighbors" call the cops after having spotted a homeless person sitting on a milk crate, holding a sign soliciting a few bucks. There's got to be a better way to achieve a mutually-satisfactory degree of conflict resolution. It seems there's some sort of unholy competition going on here to see who can be the biggest, most prolific "Judas." And the worst part? Many of these cringing, cowardly, demented "Good Citizens" are actually proud of their sordid selves. Perhaps I exaggerate; if so, not by much. Makes me want to seek out a more honorable populace... maybe somewhere better, like... Schenectady NY, Muskogee Oklahoma or Benton Harbor Michigan...

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