To ignore or to forbid… it’s just a matter of who is not taking the emotional bill.

My views are more cynical, for my idealism is obviously bias and selective. I live trapped in vicious circle of conflicting feelings: pity, selfishness, kindness, pseudo-empathy, etc. The worst my own world has thought me is to ignore the sad  views in front of me, or to be selective as to whom I should/can help.

I come from a land where vagrants live and alternate their reality with our  own reality, it has been like this for centuries. How much pity (or empathy) can one offer before one runs out of it? How willing should one be  to open the pockets  and grant others the fruits from the tree, whose seed we’ve sown  and grow?

                                                             

The difference then between a society that ignores them,  and one that totally forbids their presence, is that the latter, is openly making Disneyland what it is… Disneyland, the happiest place on earth, where only the pretty, clean and beautiful has room, where people pay big fees to enter to enjoy and rejoice in the “ beautiful  coziness ” (which pretty much sum up the  let’s make all cozy Norwegian mentality)  and to have the guarantee that the ugly will stay restrained behind the entrance gates, where they should be kept in order to avoid the “customers” feel uncomfortable with something so ugly.

To ignore or to forbid… It’s just a matter of who is not taking the emotional bill.

My view on the beggars ban discussion in Norway

16.06.2014