[lit-ideas] Re: Didn't I tell you so?
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 09:37:06 -0400
I think in their own way many of the rich are just as mentally unbalanced
as the poor. They're just prettier than the poor. To a person who's going
blind while someone withholds medication that would save their sight
because there's not enough money in it, that's not too many steps up from
being hit with a pipe. Greed is a variation on mental illness. As I see
it, the rich are coldly abusive, the poor are hotly abusive. Coldly
abusive results in sociopaths while hotly abusive results in drug users.
In the smaller picture, I'd rather be coldly abused than hotly abused, but
in the big picture in my opinion they wash out into the same thing.
> [Original Message]
> From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 6/28/2006 1:48:15 AM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Didn't I tell you so?
>
> > if you need help seek out the poor. I've never known the rich to give
a damn, the poor understand.
>
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> My personal experience is the opposite. When I was most
> desperately poor, unhinged, living in an SRO in one of the
> worst parts of town, it was the poor people who were the
> most vicious and hurtful. And it was rich acquaintances (not
> friends, just acquaintances) who unexpectedly came to my
> aid, asking no recognition or repayment.
>
> It's all very romantic to think the poor are noble, but
> after watching homeless drunks fight each other with lead
> pipes at 4 a.m., after watching the skankiest toothless
> hookers sizing me up for a manip or begging me for fix
> change, after witnessing closeup the extreme mental illness
> of the homeless, the sadism and brutality of the ignorant
> poor on a daily basis, you might sing a different song.
>
> Maybe the noble poor image fits with some pastoral Christ
> dream, but in the real heart of urban darkness, the poor are
> just part of a vision of demons. They eat themselves and
> then they eat your soul.
>
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