A very interesting review--thanks for posting. I especially like what you have to say about the underlying philosophy about the role of government, and how it feeds into these attitudes.
If you're interested in Katrina and incompetent responses to disaster, I cannot recommend highly enough Rebecca Solnit's A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster. She looks at five disasters in North America--the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, the 1917 Halifax explosion, the 1985 Mexico City earthquake, 9/11 in New York City, and Katrina--and Katrina really benefits from being put in that context
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Thanks for the reference to the book. I will see if my library carries it as it sounds so interesting.
What you say about how people respond to disaster is interesting. I had a friend who was in America for Burning Man when Katrina struck. They went in to a media blackout with the last news being the hurricane had missed New Orleans. Then they spent days in a radical experiement in communal living - and then came out to see the media was saying things were so very bad in New Orleans. As it turned out there was community level cooperation in New Orleans too, but it was not at all what the media narrative was about at the time.
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If you're interested in Katrina and incompetent responses to disaster, I cannot recommend highly enough Rebecca Solnit's A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster. She looks at five disasters in North America--the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, the 1917 Halifax explosion, the 1985 Mexico City earthquake, 9/11 in New York City, and Katrina--and Katrina really benefits from being put in that context ( ... )
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What you say about how people respond to disaster is interesting. I had a friend who was in America for Burning Man when Katrina struck. They went in to a media blackout with the last news being the hurricane had missed New Orleans. Then they spent days in a radical experiement in communal living - and then came out to see the media was saying things were so very bad in New Orleans. As it turned out there was community level cooperation in New Orleans too, but it was not at all what the media narrative was about at the time.
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