Freegans

Well this is about as stupid as humans get. If you don’t know what a freegan is visit freegan.info and prepare to have your mind blown by people who can’t just come out and say what they really mean…. don’t understand? Let me break it down for you. Here are some of the selling points of freeganism and what they really mean…

Waste Reclamation - According to the freegan.info site : “This practice of affluent societies produces an amount of waste so enormous that many people can be fed and supported simply on its trash. As freegans we forage instead of buying to avoid being wasteful consumers ourselves, to politically challenge the injustice of allowing vital resources to be wasted while multitudes lack basic necessities like food, clothing, and shelter, and to reduce the waste going to landfills and incinerators which are disproportionately situated within poor, non-white neighborhoods, where they cause elevated levels of cancer and asthma.” Oh…. so you despise the much needed waste management systems of the world so you eat garbage? Just say that’s what you do. You go through the trash and pull things out that others have deemed no longer useful and you eat them. People throw away food and other items for all sorts of reasons. The food has gone bad, the clothes are torn, the furniture is broken beyond repair, etc. etc. This isn’t a practice of “affluent society” that they claim it is. Everyone from wealthy down to the poorest throws things away. I’m not going to eat 3 week old bread because it’s “perfectly fine”. And, there are waste dumps all over the country. Not just in “non-white neighborhoods”. Give me a fucking break. I’m not going to eat garbage because someone chooses to live near a dump.

Rent Free Housing - The freegans say : “Squatters believe that real human needs are more important than abstract notions of private property, and that those who hold deed to buildings but won’t allow people to live in them, even in places where housing is vitally needed”

I say “fuck right off”. Abstract notions? How fucking abstract is money PAID to someone else for something they OWN. I pay money to a landlord for my apartment. I can choose to have no objects in there and not even be there at all, ever. It’s still mine via my landlord. People aren’t allowed to live in those buildings because they don’t have the money to pay for them. Simple as that. Welcome to capitalist society. Strap on your seatbelt and get ready for the ride of your life, because without MONEY you aren’t getting very far. Even the biggest douchebags in the city of Chicago can afford an apartment without having to break the law (i.e. steal housing by squatting). I don’t ever want to hear that people aren’t “allowed” to do something. That’s an excuse people use when they’re lazy. Law defeats punk rock ideals every time.

Working Less - “By accounting for the basic necessities of food, clothing, housing, furniture, and transportation without spending a dime, freegans are able to greatly reduce or altogether eliminate the need to constantly be employed. We can instead devote our time to caring for our families, volunteering in our communities, and joining activist groups to fight the practices of the corporations who would otherwise be bossing us around at work.”

Okay, so if you steal, eat garbage, and live in illegal housing, you and your freegan family can eliminate the need to be “bossed around at work”. Excuse me…. just say “I don’t want to work, I want to play all day” because that’s exactly what you’re doing. Everyone works at some point. Get over it. Unless you were born a billionaire playboy, work is on your not so distant agenda. I work, you work (or have at some point). It’s how we can all afford fancy stuff like food, and clothes, and a home. Not everyone works for some evil corporation. Some people have figured out how to be moderately successful on a small scale on their own. It’s something called “not being lazy”.

Basically all of this is an outline on how to be homeless. My question is, where the fuck did they get the computer to make this website. Didn’t THAT cost money? Or did they dumpster dive a Windows 95 Packard-Bell from someone’s trash? I wonder.

Basically, freegans make me mad and I kind of want to punch one in the face.