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Only there are no producers directing the action. Right now I'm thinking TV producers could do a much better job of managing this crisis than our *coughs* elected leaders and their syncophants.
As I was watching CNN's Anderson Cooper desperately attempt to get Louisiana Senator Landrieu to agree that no one is stepping up to the plate and taking responsibility for what's going on in that city, I thought about the people walking around with guns, I thought about the people walking around looting whatever they could get their hands on, necessary or unnecessary, I thought about those who were firing bullets at rescue helicopters, attempting rape (and I reckon there have probably been some successful), and so on, it occurred to me to wonder if anyone in Washington DC thought they were watching a rehearsal for their urban warfare program, trying to see what they could learn from it.
After all, CNN, MSNBC, etc., are doing a far better job of covering what's actually happening in the Crescent City than they did in Baghdad.
Maybe I'm just giving DC too much credit.
Anyway, here's what I've learned:
1. Own a battery-powered radio. AM/FM/Shortwave.
2. It might be good to have an old-fashioned mimeograph machine.
I think our over-dependence on high technology may be the biggest failure in that city right now. I haven't heard a thing about flyers being dropped, directing people where to go. I haven't heard a thing about communications to the stranded victims of this disaster.
How are people who aren't at any organized shelter supposed to know where to go and what to do? They DON'T. And that may be playing a large part in this freak-out. Even if someone somewhere does have a fucking plan, how are people going to know?
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