Sep 02, 2005
This Is What Dystopia Looks Like
The entire US educational technology world was gathered not much more than a year ago in the very convention center where people are dying from neglect by the dozens, if not hundreds, as I type this. For some reason I ended up on some kind of tour bus back to the airport. I guess it was a shuttle of some type. Regardless, the driver treated us to running commentary about the city, which mostly focused on the last big hurricane hit and the likely consequences of the next one. I'm not sure that his rap was approved by the chamber of commerce, but he got his point across, so on Saturday when I returned to the states and read that a category 5 hurricane was pointed at New Orleans, I walked downstairs and annonced that we might be looking at the greatest catastrophe in the US of our lifetimes. Maybe it would be a miss, but if it was going to be a hit, it would be the worst thing we've ever seen.
I am not going to assume that the actions of the executive branch, from the president on down, are from ignorance. Even they are not that ignorant. Everything this administration has done up to this point, for the past five years, has been a political calculation. To believe they stopped this week and simply became stupid or incompetent is to play into their hands.
