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September 10, 2005

Katrina Revealed: Reality Television, Shades Of Gray, And Morality

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The spectacle in New Orleans only confirms to many what has been apparent for a long time. One of the very few silver linings to Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, (as well as other calamitous disasters like 9/11), is the profound reality it exposes, the resulting awareness of how things are, as opposed to how we wish them to be. Whether Bush is to "blame" for instance is so irrelevant as to be laughable if it was not a symptom of a very serious malady. Americans (and most of the West) have become an unserious people. The national and international discourse following the tragedy reveals the utter lack of understanding about the nature of our dilemma. Our "problems" as the politicians and pundits like to say, are not political, economic, educational, or racial; they stand revealed as cultural and, at base, moral.

Hat tip - GOPINION

Posted by Richard at September 10, 2005 11:47 PM

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