Blogs give the potential for allot of directions for words. Words written might be perfect for someone 6 months ago, or perfect for someone who reads them 6 months from now – the ideal words, words that might be perfect in a certain context might not be ideal for the reader today.
Contributions in the moment might not always be appreciated or entertained. That said contributions over months and years has the potential to lead to a certain number of gems, worthwhile pieces whose sum is greater than their parts.
Easy to undersell oneself on knowing the value of a piece, knowing how it will be appreciated, how it will be used, what potential it has for the future.
I postulate that someone who hasn’t been homeless doesn’t know the full value of a bottle of orange juice. Someone that hasn’t been homeless might drink orange juice with or without champagne – mimosas – they might appreciate the drink and appreciate the mix. That said if one is homeless, hasn’t had food for a day or two, is beaten down by the heat, less nutrition like less potassium in their diet and is then given an icy cold bold of orange juice – it has the potential to taste like champagne.
Investment in a better system is made based upon the baseline. If one does not have to deal with the government like getting IDs on a normal basis, they might find the process a nuisance but a rare occurrence. Their baseline is one not built upon being homeless, is built upon one that being homeless is a rare or impossible occurrence. Yet less investment in the system made on the baseline has the potential to be more real if personally felt like experiencing homelessness oneself. Thus, the true cost of less investment is not always valued accurately.
That said even if you do everything right, if you try to do right by everyone – it doesn’t guarantee less homelessness, less oppression, and less persecution. Sometimes doing the right thing, like trying to fix a broken system might wind oneself up in the same shoes as the people they were trying to help. Power exists and moves forward with a certain momentum – challenges to it are not always appreciated, belief that things are the way they are people are homeless because things are fair is a type of assumption, I would set it to a non-accurate one.
Does a sinking ship give data? Do people value what the people in the sinking ship, swimming away from the wreckage have to say? More data points are always valued less? Proximity to sinking might lead to sinking? There is a certain market in the status quo, revolving door homelessness and justice? People always change their impression of people after their first impression – even if their first impression was built upon an oppressive system of leverage and jade?
Accessible and useful might not always be used wisely. If your janitor today became your boss tomorrow – people might not appreciate it – they have one view of how reality is, who they are more qualified than, who they are better than, who they should follow and who should follow them. Thus, there is potential for value and profit in keeping someone with a bad first impression – homeless, villain, undertrained and ill-equipped.
We claim we want to help people, but the alternative including the subconscious messages we turn up by the society we create tastes too good to change it in sufficient ways? One might be able to appreciate a star football player winning the touchdown for the Super Bowl – yet if you replace the star player with your neighbor (the one you are supposed to love) would you cheer it on, or would it create feelings of envy, that’s not who they are, they don’t deserve that?
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