In America, heroic compassion won't get you anything like the devotion for killing someone who is a member of an 'out group'. Jordan Neely's group: untreated mental patients, is a ubiquitous group in NY. They are our biggest product. They are a loud, flailing, urinating indictment of the rest of us, who often turn away in fear and indifference.
Jordan Neely didn't exist to make subway riders feel threatened. He just existed. He was a neglected man who somehow adapted to the neglect ... and became a glaring billboard for our negligence.
We prefer to devote our money to things other than emergency health care. New York is essentially an enterprise of finance, real estate, and related services supporting those projects. Most of us are in this service. And we hardly think about the poor.
The celebrity media system now crashes into the criminal justice system, taking the truth about this poor wretch, and all the others, even further away from our consideration than before.
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