Learn something every day. That's what they say. The homeless situation in the UK is, like all social ills, a few steps behind that of the US. Scotland still the drug death capital of europe. our government systems subtly corrupted, democracy hamstrung. nationalism bubbling away on our little island. Obesity, rising tides of mental illness in our younger generation. suicide in the young ever more prevalent.
it's hard to imagine any solution to a problem that's dissolving society's understanding of sharing and caring for our fellow man in a huge vat of capitalism's acids. A huge vat of acid might end up being the solution if we let the machine work out a cost/benefit model unchecked.
This deserves the widest possible audience. You bring unique perspectives, from unique experience, to the issues raised. Please, have your agent shop this at the highest levels of publication, beginning with The Atlantic, NYT, Mother Jones, The New Republic. The Harrowing is that good.
I wanted to compliment you on this piece. This is an honest depiction, and clearly comes from experience and thought. Thank you for sharing this.
IYKYK
Wild eyed clarity.
So intense. I've been behind those doors myself here in Los Angeles. It's pretty heartbreaking here.
Learn something every day. That's what they say. The homeless situation in the UK is, like all social ills, a few steps behind that of the US. Scotland still the drug death capital of europe. our government systems subtly corrupted, democracy hamstrung. nationalism bubbling away on our little island. Obesity, rising tides of mental illness in our younger generation. suicide in the young ever more prevalent.
it's hard to imagine any solution to a problem that's dissolving society's understanding of sharing and caring for our fellow man in a huge vat of capitalism's acids. A huge vat of acid might end up being the solution if we let the machine work out a cost/benefit model unchecked.
Harrowing and heartbreaking.
This spoke to many of my own feelings on the consequences of our collective neglect, and I learned a lot, too. Thank you for writing and sharing
This deserves the widest possible audience. You bring unique perspectives, from unique experience, to the issues raised. Please, have your agent shop this at the highest levels of publication, beginning with The Atlantic, NYT, Mother Jones, The New Republic. The Harrowing is that good.
goddamn.
Fuck.
Head is spinning.
If there ever was anything everybody needs to read.
My god.
Thank you, sir.
Pulitzer level material