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September 10, 2005
A Little Bit of Sanity in The Wake of Katrina
I haven't felt much like blogging the last couple of days, but Thomas Sowell's most recent column cut straight through the screams of the morons that I've been reading, hearing and watching since the levees broke in New Orleans, former home of the nutty, late John Kennedy Toole and future home of, well, who knows...
Sowell's full column, "Rebuilding New Orleans -- and America" can be read here.
Highlights:
"When all is said and done, government is ultimately just human beings -- politicians, judges, bureaucrats. Maybe the reason we are so often disappointed with them is that they have over-promised and we have been gullible enough to believe them.
Government cannot solve all our problems, even in normal times, much less during a catastrophe of nature that reminds man how little he is, despite all his big talk."
and
"That is where the great moral traditions of a society come in -- those moral traditions that it are so hip to sneer at, so cute to violate, and that our very schools undermine among the young, telling them that they have to evolve their own standards, rather than following what old fuddy duddies like their parents tell them.
Now we see what those do-it-yourself standards amount to in the ugliness and anarchy of New Orleans.
In a world where people flaunt their 'independence,' their 'right' to disregard moral authority, and sometimes legal authority as well, the tragedy of New Orleans reminds us how utterly dependent each one of us is for our very lives on millions of other people we don't even see.
Thousands of people in New Orleans will be saved because millions of other people they don't even know are moved by moral obligations to come to their rescue from all corners of this country. The things our clever sophisticates sneer at are ultimately all that stand between any of us and utter devastation."
| By colrus | 10:57 PM
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