Oh, wrote all that and forgot to address the most interesting part of your post- the way people manage to find ways to help each other make it through. Building covert shelters and providing safe access to water and bathing etc.
I imagine more people would find ways to make things more bearable if liberalism didn’t make it seem like acts of charity didn’t come with reams of incomprehensible liability.
Tangentially related: I’m I unironically the occasional squatter victory story that makes it through to my corner of reality. But I can easily imagine if I had more to give in my life, the news cycles would have me clutching every last red cent jealousy out of pure fear. It’s incredible how knotted and tangled all the interests of capital and competition and fear weave together into a fkn society-wide straight jacket.
Oh, wrote all that and forgot to address the most interesting part of your post- the way people manage to find ways to help each other make it through. Building covert shelters and providing safe access to water and bathing etc. I imagine more people would find ways to make things more bearable if liberalism didn’t make it seem like acts of charity didn’t come with reams of incomprehensible liability.
Tangentially related: I’m I unironically the occasional squatter victory story that makes it through to my corner of reality. But I can easily imagine if I had more to give in my life, the news cycles would have me clutching every last red cent jealousy out of pure fear. It’s incredible how knotted and tangled all the interests of capital and competition and fear weave together into a fkn society-wide straight jacket.