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If one man is blind, another man loses half of his arm, a third
loses his mind, and a fourth is addicted, don't all four have a
diminished human capacity? Should they all be annihilated for
the differences between the semantics and myths surrounding their
different description s? Certainly not. Yet, traditionally, they
have been thinned from the herd, for problems that most often can
not be changed. A blind man can walk and a man with no legs can
see, and so they do not understand each other's diminished
capacity. How much less can they be understood by the
surrounding society that boasts full human capacity?
People become homeless because of their diminished human capacities. They are in need of a "sense of place" to call their own, a sense of ccommunity from which they can come into and leave from. They are a nomadic people with diminished human capacities. Most will never again be re-machined into tenancy. "In the United States one-third of the homeless population is mentally ill, one-third are addicted, and one-third are homeless families." (Blau)" From the origin of time to the end of the world, no economic system has set aside a portion of land for people who do not wish to compete. [PREVIOUS] [NEXT] |