Let me try to reference my neighbor's shorthand to qualify a few things for my viewers.
1. My parents institutionalized me when I was 9. This lasted until I was 16, upon which I had to matriculate under major access obstacles.
2. I disrupted my educational trajectory, know I am not the only one, but when I went to work between 89-92 VR put me in dead letter positions until I elbowed my way into my disability center on my own.
3. My conflicts with Presbyterian Homes started in Diamond Park in 86. I was exposed to endemic crime and domestic violence for 8 years, and trust my intelligence to know the company is liable for the unit invasion and threat to life I suffered. Their staff dissuaded me from litigation and accepted me at Riverside in 1994. Management harassment was ceaseless, regardless of the staff in place, from 94, through Trudy Richardson's hire in 06, with the exception of one man, Michael Howard. He treated me decently. Presby terminated his employ.
4. So when Tim conditionalizes my fear, what am I afraid of? Not eviction, but Presby's deliberate, calculated power to undermine self-determination. That is my fear, and what finally united my aging father and his sister is Trudy's attempt to pry into my personal affairs, which this company has absolutely no business doing. I've had enough, and I hope a good lawyer will listen and find the right loophole so I do not have to return to high crime residential areas.
My dad really doesn't care, and I know deep down he views me as expendable, and that I was my mother's fault. The entire family chorus is accusatory: You wanted your own career in the city. True, but not in a senior living facility, and I have pleaded myself raw with my mother and everyone else to help me relocate from my first year at Riverside. In this sense, I don't have any rights. I've simply absorbed being treated as if I was rabid because I did not have level playing field options. I'm responsible for being obstinate, but not that responsible, unlike those of you who drive, have more mobility options.
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What solution might be palliative to my disillusionment with state models and how we engage with each other in practice? I have passed the age of resilience; Chinese squads may not be engaged in altercations with me as they have been with dissident Ai Weiwei, but it amounts to the same thing. A few wrong choices are fatal to conditions of existence.
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Anarchist José Saramago
Also, of course, you inevitably pick up some friends you could manage without: to wit, queers, neurotic ladies, Jewish psychiatrists, Muslim boys, and young Presbyterian assistant ministers. Those who hold this position (which I do not hold) would argue that the responsible citizen necessarily gives up. The situation is hopeless, and as a reasonable man the responsible citizen becomes indifferent. All the available options disgust him, from Ayn Rand to CORE to the Birch Society.
--The Sunlight Dialogues, location 1128-29
--The Sunlight Dialogues, location 1128-29
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