Saturday, September 03, 2005
Boiling
I am a boiling-down to basics sort of a person, and today I think I have scraped my conclusions about the hurricane disaster from the bottom of my brain crucible.
1. Many of the people who want us not to point fingers, blame Bush, make this political etc. have a simple, understandable motivation. Since they supported/still support him themselves, any blame attached to him also sticks to them a little bit. No one wants to admit they helped this ghastly mess. Like I said, understandable, if not very admirable.
2. Those of us who are furious are not only outraged on behalf of all the victims. We are seeing the proof that the majority of people who are supposed to be running the country either don't care, are incompetent, or both at once.
Since we know there are more disasters in fate's pipeline waiting for all of us in general and some of us in specific, we are afraid and angry on our own behalf as well.
So there are my generalizations. I don't exactly feel BETTER for coming up with those conclusions, but I feel 'done', if you know what I mean. Now I can get on with a clearer mind, and go back to finding goods to mail out to victims without getting bogged down (as easily) in frustrated depression.
As before, one very good place collecting goods to help the refugees is
http://www.coffeecup.com/hurricane/
Another source is http://beenthere.typepad.com/been_there/
Onward.
1. Many of the people who want us not to point fingers, blame Bush, make this political etc. have a simple, understandable motivation. Since they supported/still support him themselves, any blame attached to him also sticks to them a little bit. No one wants to admit they helped this ghastly mess. Like I said, understandable, if not very admirable.
2. Those of us who are furious are not only outraged on behalf of all the victims. We are seeing the proof that the majority of people who are supposed to be running the country either don't care, are incompetent, or both at once.
Since we know there are more disasters in fate's pipeline waiting for all of us in general and some of us in specific, we are afraid and angry on our own behalf as well.
So there are my generalizations. I don't exactly feel BETTER for coming up with those conclusions, but I feel 'done', if you know what I mean. Now I can get on with a clearer mind, and go back to finding goods to mail out to victims without getting bogged down (as easily) in frustrated depression.
As before, one very good place collecting goods to help the refugees is
http://www.coffeecup.com/hurricane/
Another source is http://beenthere.typepad.com/been_there/
Onward.
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