Great thoughts on disaster
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Rolling Stone magazine's Matt Taibbi has some great observations in this long piece dealing with his experience of the aftermath of hurricane Katrina - it's good for the world that some people are still writing with a bit of Hunter S. Thompsons energy and instinct. His account of cruising around in a boat with actor Sean Penn and historian Douglas Brinkley is really good, but his general observations throughout of the chaos, and what is means for America, are brilliant:
"Any country that enjoys fighting and bitching as a recreation as much as America does will always be, in some way or another, walking along a knife's edge. We're a nation that spends its afternoons watching white trash throw chairs at each other on Jerry Springer, its drive time listening to the partisan rantings of this or that hysterical political demagogue, and its late-night hours composing feverish blog entries full of anonymous screeds and denunciations. All of this shit is harmless enough so long as the power comes on every morning, fresh milk makes it to the shelves, there's a dial tone and your front yard isn't underwater. But it becomes a problem when the magic grid goes down and suddenly there's no more machinery between you and whomever you happen to get off on hating."The whole article is well worth a read.
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