It's going to sound really horrible of me, but I'm finding all this stuff the hurricane is doing to be fascinating and inspiring.
sweatdrop I mean, I'm sad about all the people, and to be honest, I'm terrified because our country is in a weakened and vulnerable state right now. I'm afraid that I won't be able to go home for Christmas because of the gas prices, although I don't know where I would live. I'm afraid that the loss of oil in the Gulf is the beginning of the end. I'm seriously getting a huge, "The end is nigh" vibe from all of this.
But at the same time, the disaster is kinda vindicating. It shows that we science fiction writers have been right all along; If technology were to be stripped from us, and if a city were somehow isolated from the rest of the world, chaos and anarchy would ensue with disasterous results. I mean, when I heard about all the stuff, one of my first emotions was, "Damn I wish I'd written those post-apocolyptic stuff already..."
And I also feel really bad because one of my favorite sub-genres is the isolated-city scenario. Which is pretty much what happened in New Orleans. The city was isolated from the outside world, and the people within were left with no obvious hope, water up to their chests, terror everywhere... I've heard tales of rape, and murder, which I am not surprised about. All the guns were taken from the Walmarts.
So, in a way, I feel guilty. Because I've taken enjoyment from reading about this sort of thing in fiction. And hearing about it makes me kinda excited that writers in the same genre as me have foretold this sort of events. And I'm not sure if that's a bad thing.
neutral One last thing; I also feel a little confused, because recently I've thought about how we as humans are left with few or no natural predetors, besides ourselves. We try to cure every disease, and we all want to live a thousand years. We usually die either at the hands of another human or by wearing down. We live until another has killed us, or until we just don't work anymore. I wonder if maybe that's a problem. There are many, many fewer deaths then there were in times past. Which makes me almost wonder if Katrina was just fixing the cycle for a bit. I'm not saying that the people who died deserved it, I refuse to judge people based on the city they live in. But maybe mankind and the world needed it.
I don't know. Sometimes I wonder if I think too much...
EDIT: I wrote a little explanation of my post in the Pro-Life guild, just in case I needed to defend myself in a pinch.
wink Probably won't need to, but maybe it's an interesting read anyways. ^_^
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I.Am · Fri Sep 02, 2005 @ 07:25pm · 4 Comments
