What a weirdly lighthearted story. He became a homeless alcoholic at 18 after his mother died, and the only thing anyone ever thought to do about it was put him in jail over and over again until 2017? And the article treats him he was some sort of local folk hero? I think when someone becomes the local beloved homeless alcoholic, you should probably try to do something for them besides continually incarcerate them so they spend decades bouncing in and out of jail.
You really get a sense of how inhuman our societies have become when you start paying attention to how absolutely deranged mainstream discourse about homelessness is. Like it genuinely feels like a lot of public commentators are incapable of thinking of homeless people as conscious beings with actual lived experiences.
