Brad Barrish
@bradbarrish
Nerd
Brad Barrish
@bradbarrish
Nerd
This is America and Human Stuff
This brutally honest account of homelessness in America was a tough read. I think about the fact that so many people live paycheck to paycheck and are stretched so thin. And I’m referring to the people you think are just fine. I can’t help but think there’s something big happening in America and I think it’s only going to get much worse. I’m generally an optimistic person, but I haven’t stopped thinking about how we had a chance when the pandemic hit and we blew it. We failed the test.
We are very fluent in blunt, materialistic, capitalist questions: What? How soon? How much? What I hope that we can learn to do is add questions of moral imagination to that mix: questions like “Why?” and “To what human effect?” and “How much is enough?”