Reuters carried a story yesterday about a German man who had been dead for seven years before he was discovered in his apartment. I found the story rather shocking, unnerving.
I wonder how many people in the world are friendless and have also been abandoned by their families? Probably lots. After all, this is a throw-away world, one where we get rid of anyone or anything that is not of use to us. Loyalty come what may is a scarce commodity and getting scarcer.
Last night on television I saw welfare people explaining that they had to turn away hundreds of people from homeless shelters because there just wasn't room. But these weren't alcoholic old men but whole families as well as men and women in their thirties and forties who had to sleep in parks and under bridges! And this is in Australia, the supposedly Lucky Country (thanks John Howard for making the rich richer).
Caring for others was once considered to be a virtue. Now, for many, caring is restricted to one's self!
Monday, May 14, 2007
ONLY THE LONELY!
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A man in a wheelchair living under a bridge? What a terrible indictment of our capitalist world!
Meanwhile the rich gorge themselves on the best of everything!
Dan....This would only happen in the city. The city is the loneliest place in the world even if you live on the street before peoples eyes. They just dont wanna know....Places to be....Money to be made and "hey...what losers homless ppl are" they say religiously.(no pun intended!)
Zoe XXX
It's better in the country but it's not perfect. The me-first attitude seems to be spreading.
Take care of yourself! xxxxxxxx
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