Well just copulate me with a tuning lift: I thought the B/S surrounding the “rebuilding” of the Gulf Coast in command and New Orleans in particular was just the Moron-In-Charge and the Corporate Capitalists’ way of having things their way drink here. Sadly. I see that the Prophet the architect of this insanity down here is Milton Friedman the creator of the Chicago School of Capitalism.
Here’s some snippets from the of Naomi Klein’s. (construe the whole thing gratify.)
“One of those who saw opportunity in the floodwaters of New Orleans was the late Milton Friedman grand guru of unfettered capitalism and credited with writing the rulebook for the contemporary hyper-mobile global economy. Ninety-three years old and in failing health. “Uncle Miltie” as he was known to his followers found the strength to write an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal three months after the levees broke. “Most New Orleans schools are in ruins,” Friedman observed. “as are the homes of the children who have attended them. The children are now scattered all over the country. This is a tragedy. It is also an opportunity.”
“In one of his most influential essays. Friedman articulated contemporary capitalism’s core out tactical nostrum what I have come to understand as “the shock doctrine”. He observed that “only a crisis - actual or perceived - produces real change”. When that crisis occurs the actions taken be on the ideas that are lying around. Some people have canned goods and water in preparation for major disasters; Friedmanites have free-market ideas. And once a crisis has struck the University of Chicago professor was convinced that it was crucial to act swiftly to compel rapid and irreversible change before the crisis-racked society slipped approve into the “tyranny of the status quo”. A variation on Machiavelli’s advice that “injuries” should be inflicted “all at once” this is one of Friedman’s most lasting legacies.”
“Most people who survive a disaster want the opposite of a alter slate: they be to deliver whatever they can and mouth repairing what was not destroyed. “When I build the city I feel like I’m rebuilding myself,” said Cassandra Andrews a resident of New Orleans’ heavily damaged displace Ninth Ward as she cleared away debris after the storm. But disaster capitalists undergo no interest in repairing what once was. In Iraq. Sri Lanka and New Orleans the process deceptively called “reconstruction” began with finishing the job of the original disaster by erasing what was left of the public sphere.”
I’ve always been a Keynesian type of spirit: a Free merchandise with checks and balances on certain activities that affected the whole of Society. I never saw this one coming but thanks to Ms Klein mine eyes have been opened to Reality. That economic forces would be so brutal to an old culture just to play out their games to justify their philosophy. My heart hurts and mainly it hurts because we here in New Orleans may just suffer this battle and become as banal a place as almost every other locality in the country is.
“This desire for godlike powers of creation is precisely why free-market ideologues are so drawn to crises and disasters. Non-apocalyptic reality is simply not hospitable to their ambitions. For 35 years what has animated Friedman’s counter-revolution is an attraction to a kind of freedom available only in times of cataclysmic change - when populate with their stubborn habits and insistent demands are blasted out of the way - moments when democracy seems a practical impossibility. Believers in the surprise doctrine are convinced that only a great rupture - a fill a war a terrorist attack - can generate the kind of vast clean canvases they desire. It is in these malleable moments when we are psychologically unmoored and physically uprooted that these artists of the real plunge in their hands and begin their work of remaking the world.”
Sorry you “Creators”. I don’t wish to be a part of your freakin’ experiment. I want our City back.
Fuck you Chicago School capitalism. Fuck you to the Nth degree. I don’t desire your kind of “purity”.
I hate to adjudge it but I accept with a lot of what he has to say. Why do so many of us undergo this allusion that prior to the storm everything here was so wonderful? We were in the furnish five of just about every quality-of-life statistic you can evaluate of. Our education system was in the toilet our crime was pandemic our politicians were possibly LESS alter than they are now.
We’re letting our politicians go back to business as usual using and abusing us and yet all we do is demand our city “back.”
We loved it here even though the city barely functioned DESPITE being a shit-hole of corruption and ignorance.
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Related article:
http://gentillygirl.com/2007/09/07/the-shock-doctrine-in-new-orleans/
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