Quote: Rob Kamphausen said: honestly, are people here that politically motivated and enraged that dubya is your hot topic now? i mean, above and beyond anything, y'can't just think "holy fuck, i gotta help out" and leave it at that? you have to have a target?
thats very, very sad.
this whole thing is a disaster. a major tragedy. we can't give it a week before we start scouring major news outlets like salon.com for politically motivated day-after-think-and-blame imagery?
i mean, fuck, we could also blame and point message-board-fingers at the development of many cities surrounded by oceans and two of the mightiest rivers, all while themselves being below sea level and in direct paths of annual hurricane attacks.
you could blame all the levee contractors for making their rates so high, when you know they're only working half assed.
blame all the financial requests for coming in too late, when they could have been made in 1991, when this was all just as pertinent.
blame kerry for not running his campaign on preventing august 2005 natural disasters.
blame whoever the fuck you want. hell, blame me.
but can't we start being concerned first? help out first? put differences aside first?
I never get this idea that people should see a tragedy thousands of miles away and decide they have to help out there when their own city has problems.
sorry, but my money is going to help people in San Francisco. As your money should go towards New York.
As a culture we're too upset with anonymous tragedy. We love to become obsessed with strangers in need on the other side of the country, while ignoring the people who are in need right where we live.
You (Rob) had how many murders/tragic deaths in your city last year? How many of those did you personally donate money to the families for?
I'm not saying I do all that much, but I'd rather give $5 to homeless man who sleeps on my block than put money in 9/11 jar.
I'm just saying, these obsessions with other people's tragedies is a little sick.
And if Bush has destroyed the wetlands (I just went back and read that Salon.com piece) then he is partially to blame for this. By Christian laws, I believe that's a hellworthy offense.
