Monday, October 17, 2005
An evil city and a judgmental park...depending on your view
First starting to read Mike Davis's "Fortress Los Angeles: The Militarization of Urban Space" I was getting some what confused going a long with it but then after going back and re-reading it I was able to comprenhend most of it. I thought it was interesting how the city was spending so much money to keep the homeless people from sleeping anywhere. Wouldn't it be cheaper to set up shelter homes and food banks, instead of changing the way the park benches are designed, or installing sprinkler systems in the parks to keep them from sleeping in the parks, and designing special garbage systems to keep them out of their trash. They could have saved so much more money getting them off the streets and into safer places, but they don't seem to care about the people who try so hard to just find shelter from the out door envirnoment. Thomas Hine's "Goths in Tomorrowland" made me think that we judge people way too much. The parents of the kids who live in OC just need a safe place for their children to go and know that they will be safe. Expressing themselves with dressing up in black is the way their clinque is. The sterotypical jock always dresses in jerseys, computer geeks always seem to dress in overalls and have glasses with tape in the center of them and the goths dress in all black and decorate themselves with piercings and sharp objects. Even though Disneyland is labeled "the happiest place on earth" the way someone dresses shouldn't change anyone who sees them in the park. Their not doing anything wrong and don't seem to be physically bothering anyone. Why do people have to complain about them being there. If they had been bothering people physically then there would be a reason to get rid of them. With the changing of generations people, more teens though, are expressing themselves more with the way they dress. People cannont be offended by it since this is america and you have every right to dress the way you want to. I see no problem with having people look goth walking around disneyland as long as they don't come up to me and start bothering me.
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