Amerika

Something shifted in the American view of homeless people. Back in the 1980s, they were viewed as a tragedy, and in the hazy O’Clinton-O’Bama-O’Biden days, as somehow a symbol of our failure to share the wealth and tolerate others.

In the last couple years, however, as homeless camps have sprouted across the West, the attitude has changed. We have stopped seeing the homeless as victims, and have started seeing them as defective, which transforms tragedy into an infectious threat to all of us.

When our view of the homeless moves from “victims” to “defectives,” we stop seeing them as a problem to be managed and instead view them as individuals who represent a threat due to their inability or unwillingness to stop making terrible life choices.

During the period they were viewed as victims, homeless were portrayed as people who had lost housing. Increasingly public knowledge tends toward the idea that they are mostly drug addicts with mental health problems to the point that they cannot be housed.

A sane society defecates this human waste through exile or other removal methods. It does not sound compassionate, but it is compassionate to all of the functional people, who are no longer victims of the disorder, feces, crime, and ugliness that homeless camps bring.

In nature, up to 40% of each generation of creatures gets eaten by something larger or smarter, and this keeps the species strong. If all of the dumb narcissist mice get eaten, the remainder are more intelligent and aware, and that trend continues.

Through that process, some species have stayed intact for millions of years. Sharks, for example, are strict Darwinists who unleash their young to see if they can survive. Cockroaches invest nothing in protecting the group, meeting only to mate or feast.

Humans select self-destruction of their civilization because individuals fear being inferior. Since we, instead of nature, mediate our survival, we use peer pressure on each other to stop natural selection, but that originates in the fear of individuals and not a realistic plan.

As the excesses of the civil rights era are exposed, people are now eschewing the humanity question for the utility question. Humanitarianism asks if every human is equally protected and represented; utility asks what the productive, creative, and order-sustaining value of each human is.

Some contribute negative value. The homeless will never cure cancer or make an industry. They will not even have farms. They will however gratify their desires, leaving a millieu of injected drugs, public nudity, street defecation, and constant petty crimes behind them.

Homeless also serve an economic role, which is to take money from well-meaning people and convert it into profits for liquor shops, drug dealers, and convenience stores. They leave behind mountains of waste and businesses that depend on decay to survive.

Every human has a psychological death urge, and some populations have those who help with decay and nothing else. The homeless, like bureaucrats and MBAs, are part of our death process. It is healthy to reject death and failure by exiling the homeless.

Tags: exile, homeless, mental health