I’ve totally bought into the PC culture that has seeped into the tiniest cracks of our psyche. I wrote an entry around these photographs, and though I was really unhappy with it, I posted it anyway.

Then I deleted it. What a constipated load of drivel. I was saying one thing while wanting to say something else. I’d like to say I was trying to be nice, but I was really subconsciously being PC. It staggers me how the insidious liberal, PC philosophy has spread, like a virus.

It struck me the other day, nobody gets angry anymore. You’re not allowed to get red-faced, want-to-scream-and-punch-something pissed off!! It seems to suggest a lack of control, an inferior mindset, that you are somehow unenlightened, even barbaric.

Why is that?

Anyway, the photos. Opposite Hagley Park are what used to be stock-yards. I think that’s what the place used to be. Long abandoned, though, and mostly torn down, there remains, behind the fence, a number of these little buildings. They have apparently become a hang-out for taggers, junkies, and other low-lifes.

Out here in the suburbs we don’t like to think that parts of our city are like this. After taking the pics I began to notice just how much tagging there is around the city. It’s everywhere. It’s been in the news a lot lately, especially the guy who stabbed the kid who was tagging. I have to admit I was with Barry Corbett when common sense said that if the kid was not out tagging, he would still be alive. Axiomatic.

I am trying to imagine the kind of person that would hang here. I gotta tell ya, it was broad daylight and I felt nervous being there. I’m a nervous type at the best of times, the sort who locks the car doors when driving in town at night, but I got the feeling that the low lifes who created this place wouldn’t think twice about sticking me with a knife for the three bucks in my pocket. What if they were still here, inside, smoking crack, having sex with one another or doing whatever else they do?

How dare they?

If we could get angry, maybe something could be done about it.