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Ignorance and Want
Dec. 25th, 2016 12:23 pmOn my previous entry's theme of
I realize that I do not know, for example, how long the waiting list is for a single homeless adult to get any kind of indoor abode at all, nor to what extent such would be any safer than life on the streets, if one is easily ejected from such places because one's mental issues are going untreated, if the funding is mostly from charities instead of central or local government, etc. It probably would not take much research for me to partially correct my ignorance but it is blissful to not have to gaze upon the pinched and twisted features of the horrible, dread monsters under the Spirit's robe.
A Christmas Carol: Charles Dickens' Ghost of Christmas Present warns to
most of all bewareIgnorance and, while I know that those in distant lands suffer greatly, I am curious about those closer to home. I have not seen Ken Loach's
I, Daniel Blake(2016) but I can easily believe that the UK's benefits system is unsympathetically unrealistic in its expectations, even without one having to deal with concomitant challenges such as depression or small children. People agree that something should be done but problems are typically regarded as being somebody else's to address.
I realize that I do not know, for example, how long the waiting list is for a single homeless adult to get any kind of indoor abode at all, nor to what extent such would be any safer than life on the streets, if one is easily ejected from such places because one's mental issues are going untreated, if the funding is mostly from charities instead of central or local government, etc. It probably would not take much research for me to partially correct my ignorance but it is blissful to not have to gaze upon the pinched and twisted features of the horrible, dread monsters under the Spirit's robe.
