Clandestine Reality

I used to believe principles were absolute. I grew up (like many people) reading stories about principled and idealistic people who gave up their lives for their honor. According to these, you’re either the hero who upholds your principles, or you’re the petty villain who gave up and made compromises. After I grew up, I started to realize, life isn’t that clean cut. I realized that if a person is able to uphold a principle simply because that principle was never challenged, and they never need to make a difficult decision, that’s not being principled, that’s having privilege. And perhaps we should have a little bit of compassion for those who make the compromises. I studied art in college, went to grad school for it. When I graduated, I wanted to be a concept artist for games or movies. Of course, concept artist is the most coveted position in game production and the competition is insane. But, I have a dream. I’m going to go for it. Only losers give up. I found a non-game related desk...

Instead of having a park, where we pay a guard to evict the homeless… We allow people to set up tents. Instead of having private mobile home parks where people are basically paying rent for the right to live out of their cars, we could have public mobile home parks, a bit like current public parks, where people can just go, and use them, for free. Not evicting people when they set up a tent. That only requires land. We can build roads, we already do.  That requires land, materials, and construction work.  Building housing requires land, materials, and construction work too. We allow ourselves to build public roads, and not public housing.  But it’s more of a mental block than anything. We allow people to go and sit in a public park, for free. Just not to sleep there. If someone wants to be a farmer, to work the land, and produce stuff?  Or to set up a tiny home? We stop them, we tell them they can’t just access land like that, some private owner has to profit. For us...