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[sydnita]

Now you all know I'm a big atheist but I seriously challenge anyone to work in senior housing and maintain belief in a creator.

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[yourshade]

Why?

[leaf_kunoichi]

I worked in one over a summer. It didn't make me lose my faith in God. It made me question my faith in humanity and Western Culture.

[canonical_tom]

What leaf_kunoichi said. I've worked assisted living, all it taught me was that westerners treat anyone requiring assistance as subhuman, probably responsible for their own predicament because they did something to deserve it, or because they no longer have utility or maybe never did. The richness of genuine human existence is shoved into cramped little categories so that the sociopathic privileged class can conveniently avoid recognizing the three-dimensionality of human beings and their essential autonomy. It's a good trick, treating anyone as an unfortunate burden, whether they had previously been engaged in what others would consider productive work or not, forcing them into a living situation with other disempowered people, then whether they rebel against it or are cowed and submissive you blame them for that as if it's their own fault. I even found myself getting pissed at people who were being difficult, but then I thought, if I were in their place I'd be fifty times worse. I think it sucks all around.