Letters to the Editor

Letter: Standards and expectations

To a society, people are a commodity. Everybody is important for success. While the Anchorage Assembly is planning on how to clean up the homeless camps, there should be, if nothing else, an examination of what got people to the point of being homeless.

The fatal flaw of the 1960s, like dropping out and dropping in, doing your own thing — it is a misguided celebration that has found its way to state and city governments. But what happens to individuals with a low education or suffering from a mental illness? Dropping out is easy and even celebrated, but, at the present, there is no easy way to drop back in.

It is the appropriate time for the Anchorage Assembly to develop better standards and expectations for society.

— Faith Myers

Anchorage

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Faith Myers

Faith J. Myers, a psychiatric patient rights activist, is the author of the book, “Going Crazy in Alaska: A History of Alaska’s treatment of psychiatric patients,” and has spent more than seven months as a patient in locked psychiatric facilities in Alaska.

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