Cersonsky: Confront the other at Yale
I wish there were more homeless people for me to run into in front of Gourmet Heaven at 3 a.m. asking me to buy them hamburgers. Really, I do. It’d be great. More people homeless, requesting hamburgers.
Sure, right now I co-direct Shelter Now, a grass-roots political action and community organizing coalition whose goal is ending chronic homelessness. We’re a great bunch, and I recommend you join. But my relationship with homelessness is more complicated than that.
I’d love to get rid of it. But if it weren’t for the homeless, I’d be less than who I am. I’d still identify as...
That's actually not true, if you (a) read beyond the first paragraph, (b) read the second paragraph, and/or (c) read the entire column.
Okay lets go to the third paragraph:
"I’d love to get rid of it. But if it weren’t for the homeless, I’d be less than who I am. I’d still identify as some form of liberal, study cognitive science, go for long runs, write the occasional News column and live the good life."
Love to get rid of it, yea sure, BUT...
What's with the "but"? The homeless to you are just a tool for your narcissistic self-aggrandizement. It's certain you are serious when you say you want more of them in the first paragraph. In the third you tell us why. You think they would be less miserable because their plight makes you feel so tingly and "gifted". Think about what your saying Mr Cognitive.
I just want to apologize for the "go to hell" part. Even if your a little wrongheaded your intentions are well meaning and so with the help you give I want to to stay a bit longer.
Lets get this straight, you want the misery and despair of homelessness to increase just so you can feel better about your smartass self. Go to hell.