“Laugh if you want to or say you don’t care—If you cannot see it you think it’s not there—It doesn’t work that way”

‎^^THAT is how the public is…

It’s like graffiti. Graffiti is the voice of the unheard. Those in poverty, those whose voices are not being heard by society, and/or those who just don’t have enough to do. When a city wants to clean up and crack down on graffiti, they are simply trying to sweep the problems under the rug. It’s an out-of-sight-out-of-mind style of governance. If the public doesn’t see the problems, they won’t get pissed off at the government and the politicians can keep their high-paid public positions.

I take this even further to say this: Inside every house in the suburbs there is dysfunction—obviously some worse than others—all hidden behind the clean sleek image of suburban lifestyle. Unlike poverty-stricken areas where the dysfunction is largely out in the open—because hiding it costs money—in the suburbs, people can afford to hide the societal problems with clean cut lawns, perfectly painted houses, trimmed trees, and fake-looking gardens. The suburbs—from an aesthetic point of view—paints a picture of this perfect world; a perfect world that does not exist amidst the societal dysfunction that is everywhere around us. 

Keeping the problems of society out of sight does not get rid of them, despite how it appears. I have the unfortunate ‘gift’ of seeing the dysfunction that most people do not—the dysfunction that society tries to hide. Call me crazy if you will, but it’s those who look in at society from the outside that see the things those on the inside do not.