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Post #222,242 by Another Scott 9/1/05 2:27:57 PM Reply	.. are destitute or invalids or hospitalized or ... :-(
Post #222,252 by ChrisR 9/1/05 3:15:29 PM Reply	Desperate times... ...bring out the best and worst in people. Guess I should be less judgemental. Each has their own story to tell. And their own level of frustration. I don't put that much creedance in the news reports, one way or the other. An individual is incompable of comprehending the swath of damage that's been done. Wonders what the long term implications are in terms of both engineering feats and for a united citizenry. Too early to tell, but both seem to be taking a beating at the moment.
Post #222,255 by jake123 9/1/05 3:22:26 PM Reply	I'm wondering if this event might not set off some soul searching in the US culture-at-large. Are the arson and looting going on in New Orleans going to cause some reflection on what it means to be an American? 'Course, that depends somewhat on whether your media actually do any reflection of their own. --\n-------------------------------------------------------------------\n* Jack Troughton jake at consultron.ca \n [link\|http://consultron.ca\|http://consultron.ca] [link\|irc://irc.ecomstation.ca\|irc://irc.ecomstation.ca] \n Kingston Ontario Canada [link\|news://news.consultron.ca\|news://news.consultron.ca] *\n-------------------------------------------------------------------
Post #222,258 by hnick 9/1/05 3:30:28 PM Reply	Not a chance For every disaster or riot, there has been attendant looting. It's a lot like soccer games in Europe. It just takes more to get the mopes off their asses.
Post #222,261 by Andrew Grygus 9/1/05 3:39:18 PM Reply	Didn't in Los Angeles [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx]
Post #222,262 by ChrisR 9/1/05 3:39:31 PM Reply	Third world country Heard the comments here and there about the area having a feel of a third world country, and that gets me thinking of why we have an image of ourselves as somehow superior to the people in the 3rd world? Take away the wealth, which is what the hurricane has done, and are we any better than any other set of people? Well, the right would say that it is our industriousness and determination that sets us apart - both of which are fed by our freedom and faith. The left would say that it is our binding compassion and ability to work together that makes us different - both of which are fed by our social contract and our respect for each other. Truth, always being fickle to pin down, probably taps into both. As for whether the media has the ability of reflection, that is easy to answer - none at all ("...which By a curious coincidence..."). In order to digest massive events we have to melodramatize things - for example, the war in Iraq seems to have come down to a question of opinion on what one thinks of Cindy Sheehan.
Post #222,265 by tuberculosis 9/1/05 4:16:13 PM 8/21/07 6:06:24 AM Reply	Naaah What you will be (and already are in some cases) seeing is right wing nut bloggers whining about how nobody is rushing to help us out even though we run around helping everyone else out. The entitlement thing. What might cause a rethink is if sympathetic riots begin in other cities around the US. "Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect" --Mark Twain "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." --Albert Einstein "This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses." --George W. Bush Edited by tuberculosis Aug. 21, 2007, 06:06:24 AM EDT Expand All History
Post #222,418 by Ashton 9/2/05 6:49:22 AM Reply	Whatever else this massive boondoggle is explained-away with for some of us, it is a mere vetting of the idea that, very few Murican consumer-sheep have the foggiest idea of the complexity of a modern techno-besotted, centralized-Corporate-distribution of monopolized lines of goods. And Today: OF most of THE NECESSARY BASIC COMMODITIES, too. (Sure looks Good on spreadsheets with Bottom Lines, though. In fair weather.) Much of fact and fiction re 'the Open Society (and its Enemies' \ufffd) fills the literature of the (first) War Century: but few I've met during half that century - knew how Anything worked, if they could even find the Manual in the packing about to be thrown away. Well: Katrina is demonstrating How Easily It All Might Not Work. No ez-electricity: no water, pumps, refrigeration, battery charging, comm ... (I see: at least a hundred PhDs out of the plethora of owl-entrail readings; maybe just in the second year?) I wonder which of these will connect to the declining competence level of the 'average consumer', in about all things having to do with animal survival. Or how the ability to walk a few miles, fits in with 'fitness'. 'Common Sense' Hah! - it's neither. Now more than ever?

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