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I Watched People Walk Around a Homeless Man Who Was Sleeping on a Sidewalk Earlier Today. This is life???
I was out walking just now, doing some errands and as I saw this, I cried…
People walking past, walking around, in one case, even stepping OVER this homeless man. I stood to the side, and noticed that directly across the street was a church and the irony of all this was not lost on me, at all…
“Wherefore art thou?”
Scenes like the one that I just detailed above are playing out EVERYWHERE, I know this and yet…as I stood there, watching this happen in real time, I felt both frightened and sad because: is this REALLY what our society has come to? I fear that the answer is “Yes” and that it’s only going to get worse. Another ironic thing that I noticed (because I’m detail oriented that way) was a sign that had obviously been spray painted across the street from where this homeless man was sleeping while being stepped on, over and around and when I saw what was written on the sign, I just knew, or rather, “remembered” who the person is: a fictional character in the Ayn Rand novel “Atlas Shrugged” — John Galt, the protagonist of it:
