Slumming

After reading this article, I found myself enjoying it because it was different from what we usually read. The article was about these two rich people who decided to become homeless just for the hell of it. At first they were enjoying their life as homeless people until one night when they witness the kidnapping of a Brazilian oil heiress. They end up not calling it in because they didn’t see any faces or the license plate but the girl was still on their mind. After this incident, Mrs. Keyes decides she is going to remove all contact from the outside world. She gets rid of her TV, recycles her newspaper without reading it, etc. basically so she doesn’t have to read about all the terrible things going on in the world.

Now, even though I enjoyed the article, certain aspects of it kind of pissed me off. The whole “trendy” thing to do is the worst. Reading about these bourgeoisie types of people just deciding to be homeless is a very aggravating thing to me when there are so many actually homeless people who could benefit from these people. And I feel that was the author’s intention to the whole story. Or maybe not and I just over-analyzed the whole article.