Motherless Monkeys
What do motherless monkeys and New York homeless have in common?
The real story turned out to be...
Motherless Monkeys
...monkey infants were reared without any contact whatsoever from birth on. The infants were isolated for periods that ranged from three months to one year.
During this time, the infants saw no living creature,
not even a human hand.
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What is being provided to homeless people as "shelter", and what is "shelter" for the rest of New York City.
The "Shelter?"
n.
1.
1. Something that provides cover or protection,
as from the weather.
2. A refuge; a haven.
3. An establishment that provides temporary housing
for homeless people.
2. The state of being covered or protected.
shelter·less adj.
Synonyms: shelter, cover, retreat,
refuge, asylum, sanctuary
These nouns refer to places affording protection, as
from danger, or to the state of being protected. Shelter usually
implies a covered or enclosed area that protects temporarily,
as from injury or attack: built a shelter out of pine and hemlock boughs.
Cover suggests something that conceals: traveled under cover of darkness.
Retreat applies chiefly to a secluded place to which one retires for
meditation, peace, or privacy: a rural cabin that served as a
weekend retreat. Refuge suggests a place of escape from pursuit or
from difficulties that beset one:
“The great advantage of a hotel is
that it's a refuge from home life” (George Bernard Shaw).
Asylum adds to refuge the idea of legal protection
or of immunity from arrest:
“O! receive the fugitive and prepare in time
an asylum for mankind”
(Thomas Paine).
Sanctuary denotes a sacred or inviolable place of refuge:
political refugees finding sanctuary in a monastery.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language,
Fourth Edition Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
The living conditions at the shelter are prison-like because that is the model used for the design of the current "shelters" provided by New York City. These conditions have been proven to breed "bad" behavior. More on this later.
To make matters worse for the people subjected to these environmental conditions, there is "bad" attitude as well. The idea of who the "homeless" are is based on what society thought of the homeless a century, or more, ago. I stress this point. Not in the last century, mind you, but more than one hundred years passed.
The idea of "progress" demands we re-examine who the "homeless" are.
"Why is it that... in the center of the most affluent society in history, some people are denied a place for hygenic activities?"
Homeless Family, circa. 1930
Isolated Systems die out.
The Homeless
... a disenfranchised group of unrelated individuals.
People who have no recourse but to accept or refuse what is offered to them.
Once a person is assigned to, or accepts membership to this designated group,
they are...
- Penalized by the government.
- Shunned by a legally obligated banking system.
- Avoided by Corporate interests that view them as unprofitable.
- Punished by the general, mostly uninformed, society.
The homeless are trapped in an economic system that can in no way benifit them. Their value as workers is minimal if not non-existant or even of a negative value...
This is directly the result of impediments placed on them by society. These impediments also drain value from the temporary homeless who, unlike the chronic homeless, are passing through a period of transition.
The way matters are currently arranged, what little value the chronic homeless have for Society is as movable objects; in their being submissive and contained.
To Be Cont.
© 2004 homelessINK
The real story turned out to be...
During this time, the infants saw no living creature, not even a human hand. |
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What is being provided to homeless people as "shelter", and what is "shelter" for the rest of New York City.
The "Shelter?"
n.
1.
1. Something that provides cover or protection,
as from the weather.
2. A refuge; a haven.
3. An establishment that provides temporary housing
for homeless people.
2. The state of being covered or protected.
shelter·less adj.
Synonyms: shelter, cover, retreat,
refuge, asylum, sanctuary
These nouns refer to places affording protection, as
from danger, or to the state of being protected. Shelter usually
implies a covered or enclosed area that protects temporarily,
as from injury or attack: built a shelter out of pine and hemlock boughs.
Cover suggests something that conceals: traveled under cover of darkness.
Retreat applies chiefly to a secluded place to which one retires for
meditation, peace, or privacy: a rural cabin that served as a
weekend retreat. Refuge suggests a place of escape from pursuit or
from difficulties that beset one:
“The great advantage of a hotel is
that it's a refuge from home life” (George Bernard Shaw).
Asylum adds to refuge the idea of legal protection
or of immunity from arrest:
“O! receive the fugitive and prepare in time
an asylum for mankind”
(Thomas Paine).
Sanctuary denotes a sacred or inviolable place of refuge:
political refugees finding sanctuary in a monastery.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language,
Fourth Edition Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
The living conditions at the shelter are prison-like because that is the model used for the design of the current "shelters" provided by New York City. These conditions have been proven to breed "bad" behavior. More on this later.
To make matters worse for the people subjected to these environmental conditions, there is "bad" attitude as well. The idea of who the "homeless" are is based on what society thought of the homeless a century, or more, ago. I stress this point. Not in the last century, mind you, but more than one hundred years passed.
The idea of "progress" demands we re-examine who the "homeless" are.
"Why is it that... in the center of the most affluent society in history, some people are denied a place for hygenic activities?"
Homeless Family, circa. 1930
Isolated Systems die out.
The Homeless
... a disenfranchised group of unrelated individuals.
People who have no recourse but to accept or refuse what is offered to them.
Once a person is assigned to, or accepts membership to this designated group,
they are...
- Penalized by the government.
- Shunned by a legally obligated banking system.
- Avoided by Corporate interests that view them as unprofitable.
- Punished by the general, mostly uninformed, society.
The homeless are trapped in an economic system that can in no way benifit them. Their value as workers is minimal if not non-existant or even of a negative value...
This is directly the result of impediments placed on them by society. These impediments also drain value from the temporary homeless who, unlike the chronic homeless, are passing through a period of transition.
The way matters are currently arranged, what little value the chronic homeless have for Society is as movable objects; in their being submissive and contained.
To Be Cont.
© 2004 homelessINK
What is being provided to homeless people as "shelter", and what is "shelter" for the rest of
The "Shelter?"
n.
1.
1. Something that provides cover or protection,
as from the weather.
2. A refuge; a haven.
3. An establishment that provides temporary housing
for homeless people.
2. The state of being covered or protected.
shelter·less adj.
Synonyms: shelter, cover, retreat,
refuge, asylum, sanctuary
These nouns refer to places affording protection, as
from danger, or to the state of being protected. Shelter usually
implies a covered or enclosed area that protects temporarily,
as from injury or attack: built a shelter out of pine and hemlock boughs.
Cover suggests something that conceals: traveled under cover of darkness.
Retreat applies chiefly to a secluded place to which one retires for
meditation, peace, or privacy: a rural cabin that served as a
weekend retreat. Refuge suggests a place of escape from pursuit or
from difficulties that beset one:
“The great advantage of a hotel is
that it's a refuge from home life” (George Bernard Shaw).
Asylum adds to refuge the idea of legal protection
or of immunity from arrest:
“O! receive the fugitive and prepare in time
an asylum for mankind”
(Thomas Paine).
Sanctuary denotes a sacred or inviolable place of refuge:
political refugees finding sanctuary in a monastery.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language,
Fourth Edition Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
The living conditions at the shelter are prison-like because that is the model used for the design of the current "shelters" provided by New York City. These conditions have been proven to breed "bad" behavior. More on this later.
To make matters worse for the people subjected to these environmental conditions, there is "bad" attitude as well. The idea of who the "homeless" are is based on what society thought of the homeless a century, or more, ago. I stress this point. Not in the last century, mind you, but more than one hundred years passed.
The idea of "progress" demands we re-examine who the "homeless" are.
"Why is it that... in the center of the most affluent society in history, some people are denied a place for hygenic activities?"
Once a person is assigned to, or accepts membership to this designated group, The homeless are trapped in an economic system that can in no way benifit them. Their value as workers is minimal if not non-existant or even of a negative value...
The way matters are currently arranged, what little value the chronic homeless have for Society is as movable objects; in their being submissive and contained. To Be Cont.
Homeless Family, circa. 1930
Isolated Systems die out.
The Homeless
... a disenfranchised group of unrelated individuals.
People who have no recourse but to accept or refuse what is offered to them.
they are...
This is directly the result of impediments placed on them by society. These impediments also drain value from the temporary homeless who, unlike the chronic homeless, are passing through a period of transition.
© 2004 homelessINK
"Homeless". Isolation from the community. Un-Constitutional forms of confinement... Segregation.
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