I thought someone had been shot here, but several men nearby told me it was a dirt bike accident. I then chatted with a black man, about 42 years old, who said he had bought a house in the neighborhood for only $11,000 twelve years before. The housing bubble and subsequent gentrification inflated its value to $145,000, but he never sold, "Even with that kind of profit, I would have had to move to a much worse neighborhood, or outside the city." His next door neighbor bought her home for $230,000. She got suckered. With the housing crash, gentrification in Point Breeze more or less froze. "We were never meant to be neighbors, you know what I mean?" Also, developers sweet talked locals with promises of jobs, but never delivered.
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This is such an interesting phenomenon. Rituals of the past have been abandoned or destroyed and so we are forced to manufacture something from the components lying around in popular culture.
Humans can't live well without ritual. We can't create meaning without ritual.
This is a valiant attempt at acknowledging the sacredness of human life through ritual. It gives me some(more) hope.
As long as someone acknowledges your existence its all good .
At my high school a kid was killed on campus , and the next year rather then actually mentioning it a school administrator just implied we all knew what happened and we need to be safe .
Can't let the new students know what happened , or that our school had a yearly shooting . To my knowledge only one fatality, but still...
Anyway it feels like the power of wealth will often overpower any decency . A recent story of a Walmart staying open as someone had a heart attack and died comes to mind .Who cares ! Theirs shopping to be done !
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