The sun is out, and so are the homeless
May. 3rd, 2007 08:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfs Ah, the joys of living in the big city. Now that the sun has come out, so too have the homeless and in droves. Aggressive panhandling, signs in the parks now include "No urinating / no defecating" warnings (gross!) and every once in a while you find someone passed out on your doorstep. This photo was taken just about three blocks from my office, in a section of town that includes a lot of homeless assistance and drug recovery programs, barely a block from the new Seattle Art Museum sculpture garden. People were stepping over her. You can't see the 40oz can of malt liquor she's got hidden behind herself.
There is something objectively frightening about photographs like this: the voluntary helplessness, the abject self-degredation, the apparently willful quest for self-annhilation. Images like this don't make me want to help; if anything, they make me want to avoid ever being anywhere near her condition.
There is something objectively frightening about photographs like this: the voluntary helplessness, the abject self-degredation, the apparently willful quest for self-annhilation. Images like this don't make me want to help; if anything, they make me want to avoid ever being anywhere near her condition.
