Tuesday, February 21, 2006

Human Filing Cabinets

What is it like living in a big city like Sydney?
Lately, there have been several occasions where gruesome discoveries have been made.
Residents living on their own, many in those huge blocks of flats, have been found by neighbours many months after they have been deceased.
Living in human filing cabinets, they have been filed away.
With the way human beings retreat from one another into their own mutually exclusive shells, this unbelievable state of affairs is happening more and more.
Why are human beings out of touch with their families and without friends and companions?
Will this ever happen to anyone we should have known?
Are we witnessing in this post-modern world the de-construction of community?

1 comment:

  1. I see that your daughter was is danger of being trapped on the 5th floor with no lift. Maybe you are right. Maybe there needs to be a bigger and closer family network.

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