I kid you not that, last time I biked the river trail, it had rained that day, and I passed these large, wet footprints, that looked sort of human but not really, crossing the trail. And I thought to myself, "I think I just had my first bigfoot encounter."
We still have frontiers. They're not nearly as off the grid, because we can all be tracked now. But as you note, even in Lansing and other cities in Michigan one can go into the woods, set up camp, and live at a remove from civilization.
The substantial homeless problem in cities has more to do with encampments invading neighborhoods and creating menacing conditions for everyone nearby. And, the encampment dwellers attacking each other and killing themselves with drugs.
It is true that, if Lansing decided today that this is no longer acceptable, the police could bring in the whole population by tomorrow. Here, at least, it isn't a huge problem, it's a scattered problem, and we could end it immediately if we made the decision to end it. That's how you know we've instead decided not to do anything about it.
The natural answer is, of course, predation. Allow nature to balance itself.
I kid you not that, last time I biked the river trail, it had rained that day, and I passed these large, wet footprints, that looked sort of human but not really, crossing the trail. And I thought to myself, "I think I just had my first bigfoot encounter."
I think it worse to consider that it WASNT bigfoot. Yeeech!
We still have frontiers. They're not nearly as off the grid, because we can all be tracked now. But as you note, even in Lansing and other cities in Michigan one can go into the woods, set up camp, and live at a remove from civilization.
The substantial homeless problem in cities has more to do with encampments invading neighborhoods and creating menacing conditions for everyone nearby. And, the encampment dwellers attacking each other and killing themselves with drugs.
Nah. Just bring back vagrancy laws.
It is true that, if Lansing decided today that this is no longer acceptable, the police could bring in the whole population by tomorrow. Here, at least, it isn't a huge problem, it's a scattered problem, and we could end it immediately if we made the decision to end it. That's how you know we've instead decided not to do anything about it.