[lit-ideas] Re: True Desperation
- From: Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 16:11:15 -0400
Carol: Has anyone else here been taking all this Katrina
aftermath viscerally and personally?
Eric: I was more flummoxed and scarred by 9/11, but that was an
attack and it was down the street. Because it's distant I don't have
the immediate sense of it ... like the smell of 9/11, which I shall
never forget.
This catastrophe is more complex. It's a natural disaster
exacerbated by
class and class politics,
normal human incompetence,
failure of FEMA and Homeland Security,
ecological mismanagement, and
the gradual realization of its scope.
The best aspect of the crisis to me is the occasional empowerment of
the media to criticize Bush's stooges. For example, I watched
Nightline Thursday and heard Ted Koppel raking the FEMA director,
not allowing him to lie his way out of responsibility, or to use the
normal political doublespeak. It felt great. The last TV journalist
standing up to an unqualified Bush political appointee. It was like
the last hurrah of American freedom.
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