Homelessness
By Seb
One hundred million people
are homeless worldwide
and there are over one hundred million
empty apartments worldwide.
Why those homeless are not living in those
empty apartments is still beyond my mind?
In today’s self-entrapped world
of the so smart mobile phone,
it has become much easier to ignore
all those that don’t even have a home.
How many homeless people have you
walked passed on the street?
How many times have you tried to put yourself
in their shoes watching all those passing feet?
Why are they begging
and nobody is helping?
Why is there more food than ever before
but nothing for them to eat?
With the amount of money the United States spends
every year on Christmas decorations alone
they could easily eliminate their issue
of homelessness.
It is really not that difficult to overcome
most of our problems today
if we gather and work collectively and not get sucked into the predominantly reinforced
culture of hopelessness.
Why does modern society make you
feel like you are all on your own?
Why can’t we build a future where nobody
is categorized as a negative externality
and thrown out into an artificially scarce
society where you’re all alone.
As many as 1.6 billion people
lack adequate housing
and people are still defending today’s
outdated market structure
which is depressingly astounding.
Governments are using metal spikes
to deal with the homeless,
and unless we change the structural forces
that generate such backwards type thinking,
there will be little to no improvement
to such coldness.
In today’s society, we take better care of
those in jail than those on the street.
Those behind bars are given beds, sheets,
clothes, food, water and much more,
whilst the homeless struggle every day
just to get something to eat.
Homelessness is not an accident
or a fixed social condition.
It is the inevitable outcome of a very unequal
and obsolete market system
based primarily on ruthless and predatory
human vs. human competition.
It will take a completely new
socioeconomic mission
where we instead use science and technology
to design an emergent system
that makes sure everyone has access to clean water,
clean air, healthy nutrition, relevant education
and of course proper accommodation.
The key message in this poem
is that suffering on the street of hunger,
thirst, the cold, the heat, the loneliness,
and the degradation
has nothing to do with a person's
chromosomes.
It has something to do with the social
structure they are living in
that systemically denies them a home.
To understand more about real
solutions to homelessness
and most of our problems today
please check out Tromsite, The Venus Project
and The Zeitgeist Movement.
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Thanks for listening guys
and as always, much love.