From: Sam Norton (elizaphanian@kohath.wanadoo.co.uk)
Date: Sun Sep 04 2005 - 17:09:23 BST
Hey Platt,
I think there is a significant issue here.
Let's agree to leave the wider details (eg about paying for flood defences)
to one side for a second, all those things leading up to the hurricane
which contributed to the disaster.
At the moment that the order to evacuate New Orleans was given, what should
poor people have done? (ie those without a car or other independent means of
transport). Should there have been a bus service provided? (to be paid for
by tickets or ..?) Or something else?
It's just not clear to me that the language of rugged individualism is
appropriate. One of the things which a conservative understanding emphasises
is the importance of community (ie organically formed rather than
ideologically imposed by the state), and here there was (so it seems to me)
an abandonment of community. The attitude seems to have been (in some
quarters) "devil take the hindmost". Which he proceeded to do.
I think that is unacceptable in a civilised society.
What do you think?
Sam
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