Who else is tired of hearing about Katrina? Get it over with already, FEMA completely screwed it up, there's toxic waste spills, massing looting and all... but nothing new. Donate money and look away. Lotus breast is more interesting than this.
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Anonymous2005-09-02 23:11
you're fully justified in the sense that if it didn't effect you, it's painfully easy not to give a shit. and that applies to any 'tragedy' anywhere in the world at any point in history.
However, I think this sort of thing is long overdue for both our country as a whole and our personal sense of empathy. What I'm saying is that this is very interesting and I think it's helping people start to understand how unjust humankind and they are. (i.e.: 9/11 locks down television for a week, but a hurricane reaps 20k americans and soap operas compete with it) Many people have lost so much faith in the US government in the past week it's not even funny. So, no, it's not quite that boring just yet, you just have to know what to look for in its attention.
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Anonymous2005-09-02 23:23
>> I think it's helping people start to understand how unjust humankind and they are.
I believe a decently sized segment of humanity has always understood this basic fact.
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Anonymous2005-09-03 13:07
The way the American media is downplaying, no--out right avoiding reality is disgusting.
Here's some Reality.
I hope you like Cajun food because you're about to get some new neighbors, and they'll be around for years. Started already with the college crowd, hasn't it? I suggest you get to know them.
Make other plans for Mardi Gras (Rio, anyone?)
Hurricane season's peak is three weeks from now and there's two tropical depressions, one that might upgrade to hurricane today
out in the Atlantic. They'll most likely go elsewhere of course. Virgina, or maybe dead-on Dade county.
The large developers are already pitching: "Now that the slums are 'gone' from 'America's Coasta Del Sol'...".
The longer things fester the worse it gets--and the sweeter the no-bid, cost-plus contracts.
Gas prices got ya'll down? Ya'll say you're too poor to pump? Lawd, lawd chillin' ya'll let a board member of friggin' CHEVRON become Sec of State. WHAT DID YOU EXPECT??
Expect $5.00/gal by Thanksgiving, turkeys. Just because they can.