Katrina and human nature

[hummingwolf]

vidicon has a good rant about reactions to the human disaster here.

Over in the blackfolk community people are looking at media bias.

I keep coming back to Katrina coverage as if caught up in some science fiction miniseries, which I suppose is a form of the denial stage.

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[occipitaldruid.livejournal.com]

It's hard to take in. It really is. I've been watching the lj you linked to a few days ago since that post. I want there to be more heroes than wrong-doing, and I keep watching..hoping...wondering how it would be in my own town should something happen..

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

I get the feeling that a sense of connection and support from a larger community is the key. If all people can see are limited resources and other desperate folks fighting for those same resources, heroes will be few and isolated. People with some connection to the outside world (or, if without connection to people on the outside, belief in a deity or spiritual world) are more likely to have enough of the hope required to behave like a decent human being.

[occipitaldruid.livejournal.com]

We talked about the media bias in my multiculturalism in education class tonight.

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

It's hard to tell how much is genuine bias and how much is just disparate wording by different news sources. But there's enough stuff that sounds like racial bias to be fairly infuriating.