NY Times Explores Shoes On Powerlines Phenomenon

The New York Times took at look at the shoes on powerlines phenomenon on November 15th (hat tip to Joe, commenting at tim.lauer.name ).


South Bronx Shoes on Powerlines

A few observations and quotes:

Some of them said they did it to claim the neighborhood as their own,
to represent, one young man said, “the ghetto where we come from.”

So to take pride in where you’re from, you choose to litter up your ‘hood? Generally, I think people choose to maintain and clean things they take pride in rather than trash them. Very odd.

“We really don’t care who likes it or not,” he said. “This is something for us.”

There are different types of indifference:

1. Passive indifference: not caring combined with apathy. This is relatively harmless lack of non-activitiy.

2. Active Indifference: not caring combined with a non-caring action. This leads to a conflict between caring and non-caring people. This generally leads to problems fo rthe actively indifferent crowd since they’re generally behaving in ways that are socially - if not criminally - unacceptible.

What do you think? Any thoughts on the article? Indifference? Are you too passively indifferent to share your opinion?

Published by admin on November 21st, 2005 tagged Shoefiti in the Press

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