The overarching themes of this video is stupefying paralysis and permanent hopelessness. The squalor throughout the vid is sickening. Human society has always had people living on the fringes throughout history, but in the early 21st Century, this seems to have become more of an institution than what was once just a few misfits in any city.
In the town where I grew up (small isolated rural mountain town in Tennessee) I remember we had three such misfits, but not at the same time, they were spread out over decades. One deluded guy we called "Sheriff" because he wore a toy star on his clothing and liked to "direct traffic" from time to time. Another low-IQ guy called Leroy who lived off the kindness of the townsfolk and rode his bicycle everywhere. And then there was "Miss Edith" who roamed the streets and also lived off the kindness of strangers. And that was it, the sum total of misfits in a small town of about 1,500 people.
Today that town (where I no longer live) has rampant drug abuse, regular overdose deaths, people on various forms of "assisted living"...food stamps, welfare, etc. At least it hasn't hit the level of pathology this vid presents, but that's probably because the people there and law enforcement won't allow it.
The overarching themes of this video is stupefying paralysis and permanent hopelessness. The squalor throughout the vid is sickening. Human society has always had people living on the fringes throughout history, but in the early 21st Century, this seems to have become more of an institution than what was once just a few misfits in any city.
In the town where I grew up (small isolated rural mountain town in Tennessee) I remember we had three such misfits, but not at the same time, they were spread out over decades. One deluded guy we called "Sheriff" because he wore a toy star on his clothing and liked to "direct traffic" from time to time. Another low-IQ guy called Leroy who lived off the kindness of the townsfolk and rode his bicycle everywhere. And then there was "Miss Edith" who roamed the streets and also lived off the kindness of strangers. And that was it, the sum total of misfits in a small town of about 1,500 people.
Today that town (where I no longer live) has rampant drug abuse, regular overdose deaths, people on various forms of "assisted living"...food stamps, welfare, etc. At least it hasn't hit the level of pathology this vid presents, but that's probably because the people there and law enforcement won't allow it.