To Answer the Poverty Porn phenomena
07.16.09 (10:42 am) [edit]As someone who has been particularly examining the human condition from the side of the poor---I was originally an overqualified, wayward PhD student who did not fit in until I found sexwork as the vocabulary to decipher especially in Marxisist term---I have been thinking what the right way to counter the today's people's perversed craving and appreciation of the poverty porn could be, and the poor's inevitable choice to jump on the wagon to sell out to survive would possibly curve in near future.
Especially now, can promoting the concept of wealth---not to monopolize---be the anwer to balance the dead end economy?
Funny I got inspired in a way that I never had been and I might say yes, even for a temporary purpose. Can we motivate the poor in a substantial manner without titillating them? At least, the dead end economy would be lifted only when people have hopes for a change. Unless it would have a turn, it would not go anywhere but lower to hit the bottom.