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Victimization of the victim?  Why should anyone have to pay, to be victimized in the name of civilization? Of progress?
It is difficult to be near these people. Dirty and smelly, bad breath. Some even speak a rudimentary, survival English. Wanting only to help the true beggar, you must push them all away, for there is no way to tell the difference between the professionals and the others. The ignoring of humanity is ingrained in society, it is part and parcel of life. What has happened to us that we can be, that we have become so cavalierly coarse? Ignoring parts of humanity has become de rigueur. It is. . .human. How empty the political and business rhetoric. The work ethic is hype. It is a myth. Farmers work their entire lives and they manage subsistence, if they are lucky. Their lot is ever the short stick draw. Despite the reinstitution of private property, in the end, if there is no one in the family to keep farming, the farm reverts to the government. . .if it's not been eaten up by eminent domain and 10% economic growth. If they are tenant farmers, they don't have much choice: if they are unproductive, they are expendable. Expendable humans. Expendable life. Concepts that are difficult to grasp. Richelieu figured Huguenots and heretics were expendable, drafted them and put them in the front lines during the Thirty Years War. Human resources. How empty the spiritual, pagan and theological riff. God and the gods only favor (save) the chosen, even though divine wisdom is beyond human ken, so how can a human know who's chosen (unless it's racial--and then it's racism)? Who, then, has arrogantly abrogated the ability to bespeak godly wisdom? Sam Brownback? [helter-skelter man]? Joe McCarthy? Capper, Volstead & Evans? Henry II? Cromwell? Guy Fawkes? Bernard of Clairevaux? Constantine? Charlemagne? Every succeeding Chinese dynasty? Falon gong? The Yellow hats? Name your Pope, your lama, ayatollah or caliph, your arhat, oracle or shaman. Religion, from the beginning, has espoused slavery, has said that some people are human and some are. . .not. So, we get alot of marginalization, alot of death. People have been fighting betwixt themselves for eons, since time immemorial--why should anything change? This creates death, manmade death, and victims and marginalization and slaves and forgetfulness. War isn't always done with knives and guns and whatnot. It can be done with money and genetics. It can be done with condescendingly puerile do-gooders who are really into their do-gooderness for personal edification. Social responsibility? Ticket to ride into heaven? Yet we keep talking, preaching about our better nature. Where is it? Pipe dream? An ideal is something you don't have. Please explain to me how humans can be so inhuman. There is one big difference between PRC and the US: in PRC, all of life is visible on all the streets of all the cities, big or small. I've lived in both. In Beijing, in order to put on a good face, the social victims are shunted off the main streets. This is especially the case for the Olympics. To keep up appearances, the government is destroying old, historical homes and making people homeless. These hu tong must go, for they would be an eye-sore and give the lie to the goodness of society because it cannot be seen that millions of people live like this: in houses where there are small, high windows, no heat, no AC, no bathrooms and ceilings that fall, like Chicken Little's sky, in bits and pieces upon their inhabitants and their food and electricity is an after-thought. I know. I lived in one of these kinds of houses. I shit and pissed in a pot, throwing the piss in the drain outside the house and bagging the shit, putting it together with the kitchen scraps and throwing it in the dump out in the street. I walked ½ mile to the public showers. I did get to know my neighbors, though. People in the US don't know their neighbors. No. The beggarly victims of society are pushed to the secondary roads and out into the suburbs, where it's alright to pollute, there being laws about the pollutability of automobiles downtown. It's okay for the plebs to sicken and die. It's okay for the downside of life to be on the outside of economic growth and well-being. But it's still there, right around the corner. Life and death, always right before your eyes. Inescapable. In the US, the people are so full of goodness and light, the people are so full of denial and ignorance, selective blindness, that they pass laws against feeding the homeless. It is hoped that they will vacate the premises, since actually banning them from the cities would be prejudicial (against the law). Feeding them, however, is another thing. There is no law that stops cities from not feeding the homeless. So they don't feed the homeless. If there are no beggarly victims about the city folk won't have to face the collateral damage of their life style, they won't have to be reminded their self-interest and crudeness and guilt. A cold heart does not like to look at itself. How would de Bakey deal with social heart transplants? What would society on a heart pump look like? Religion with a triple by-pass? Institute more laws There is no such thing as a good government. But what are we to do? People are not responsible or thoughtful enough to govern themselves? How many more social abortions will we have to suffer through before humanity returns to us, as a race? Dictatorships and tyrannies don't work. Socialism and Communism don't work, though the US had the right idea with Communism coming from the bottom up, from the working class. But business and government colluded to shut down the unions or castrate them. Paracon is only good for the middle class, so it, too, is a failure. Democracy has turned into autocracy, as Aristotle predicted. Frankenstein has made his monster and no one, not even he, listens to the created's voice: "All men hate the wretches; how, then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things! Yet you, my creator, detest and spurn me, thy creature, to whom thou art bound by ties only dissolvable by the annihilation of one of us. You purpose to kill me. How care you sport thus with life! Do your duty towards me, and I will do mine towards you and the rest of mankind."  Jimsecor is a freelance writer who has travelled extensively overseas, especially Japan and China. He has published in all genre and produced several plays over the years and has taught theatre, writing and literature.
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