Today as I was walking home from school I saw a homeless man peeing on this metal box that apparently houses all the wires for the city or something along those lines. I couldn’t quite make out what the box was because it was covered in graffiti. As I tried to turn my head so I wouldn’t have to see the man peeing on the colored metal box I thought to myself about how rude, disgusting, and vulgar his actions were. It’s a public setting for god’s sake, how could anyone be so ignorant as to perform an action like that in public and then right then I thought about the graffiti that covered the box. Why did I think the man peeing on the structure was any more vulgar, rude, or disgusting than the graffiti on the box when they both functioned as forms of disrespect towards public property? Graffiti sought to destroy with paint a structure that represented rules and what the homeless man was doing was honestly no different. Both groups functioned as delinquents in my eyes who had no respect for the system in place and therefore made their own rules. Should methods of rebellion in public spaces function to destroy the space for everyone else? I get it, it’s important to voice your opinions in public settings but why does it have to be at a cost to everyone else? Why do buses and trains in New York have to look raggedy and destroyed for a generation to voice their feelings and opinions… I think there are proper ways to rebel that won’t make it harder on everyone else that has to function in the same public setting and to not operate within that makes you selfish.
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April 2015
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