goodbye New Orleans

I once spent a few days in this city on the mouth of the Mississippi. it was summer and extremely hot and muggy. i wandered around the old parts of the city with the feeling of stagnation. i recall thinking how thick the environment was with humidity and these heavy psychic residues. i guess that is all changed now. wiped clean....

when the levee broke, nature made a decision to wash this city clean.

i do not ascribe to the "accidental theory" of natural events. that is nature "just happens," and it is simply a matter of chance if you are in its path. this statement denies the reality of interconnectedness. all things in and out of nature are linked together by the Great Chain of Being. there is a reason and meaning behind every occurance, natural or otherwise. i do not intend to spell out any specifics for new orleans, at least at this time; but the writing is on the wall.

what should be pointed out is how utterly inept the response was. with the increasing volatility of the world system (human & natural) we are seeing more frequent "disasters." each disasters invites a response. the degree of this response is very telling of the health of the world system. the particular response in new orleans seems to indicate a greater degree of decay than even we had anticapted.