The Reality Of Hurricane Katrina
With a National Tragedy happening in the Gulf State region of the US in the aftermath of hurricane Katrina, there is plenty of information going out to the masses via the media and the internet. The images are disturbing, the commentaries are disheartening, and the general mood of most people I’ve been talking to has been sad.
We’re not a bad lot of souls here. Many of us are very caring and very helpful to one another. I find that most people I encounter are loving individuals and would do the right thing given the option and the means with which to do it.
Some of my ability to do the right thing depends on the information I’ve been given and by whom.
I find that a lot of what I see in the media is a bombardment of images and suggestions that I don’t know what to do with my life. And in the fury of all that activity, I have to sift through a lot to get to the heart of matters. I don’t think I have a sound bite mentality, but obviously that’s what sells.
Time seems to be an issue. Do I really have the time to learn all the facts? Do I care? What’s my agenda? Where’s my motivation? What are my pressing priorities? What else do I have to do right now? Is this going to affect my life, my livelihood, my family, my career, my health?
The truth from where I see things is that these people who have been living the horror we’ve been shown on TV in New Orleans weren’t particularly in great shape to begin with. Their stories just didn’t make the news until now. The poor are a difficult subject to address. Someone living in poverty is not a new story, or an unusual one, unfortunately.
With all of the information that is in the news and being reported on, I still don’t have enough information to know what happened down there and what really went wrong this week. I remember in the movie “Apollo 13” after the astronauts had died in the fire on the launch pad the explanation of what happened was very telling.
It was a lack of creativity that had caused the accident. They never imagined or thought that there would be a problem in a test on the ground. All of their attention had been directed to what could happen in space. There wasn’t anything they could do. And they were horrified watching those astronauts die, like we are horrified now.
I don’t usually have the imagination to know what something is going to be like even if I think I’ve grasped it and find myself in it. Today in CS Daily, put out by www.creativescreenwriting.com, there is a quote about the horror genre by Ehren Kruger. He starts out saying that you make a movie 3 times. You write it, you shoot it and then you edit it.
What he said struck me about what’s happened in New Orleans. "…in the horror genre. It's so visceral that things that read scary on the page often don't work on the screen and things that read mundane on the page --you know, 'She walks down the hallway' -- can be entirely gripping." “The levee breaks” is entirely gripping.
My prayers go out to all of you!
Laura
LauraCohnMusic.com
http://www.LauraCohnMusic.com
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We’re not a bad lot of souls here. Many of us are very caring and very helpful to one another. I find that most people I encounter are loving individuals and would do the right thing given the option and the means with which to do it.
Some of my ability to do the right thing depends on the information I’ve been given and by whom.
I find that a lot of what I see in the media is a bombardment of images and suggestions that I don’t know what to do with my life. And in the fury of all that activity, I have to sift through a lot to get to the heart of matters. I don’t think I have a sound bite mentality, but obviously that’s what sells.
Time seems to be an issue. Do I really have the time to learn all the facts? Do I care? What’s my agenda? Where’s my motivation? What are my pressing priorities? What else do I have to do right now? Is this going to affect my life, my livelihood, my family, my career, my health?
The truth from where I see things is that these people who have been living the horror we’ve been shown on TV in New Orleans weren’t particularly in great shape to begin with. Their stories just didn’t make the news until now. The poor are a difficult subject to address. Someone living in poverty is not a new story, or an unusual one, unfortunately.
With all of the information that is in the news and being reported on, I still don’t have enough information to know what happened down there and what really went wrong this week. I remember in the movie “Apollo 13” after the astronauts had died in the fire on the launch pad the explanation of what happened was very telling.
It was a lack of creativity that had caused the accident. They never imagined or thought that there would be a problem in a test on the ground. All of their attention had been directed to what could happen in space. There wasn’t anything they could do. And they were horrified watching those astronauts die, like we are horrified now.
I don’t usually have the imagination to know what something is going to be like even if I think I’ve grasped it and find myself in it. Today in CS Daily, put out by www.creativescreenwriting.com, there is a quote about the horror genre by Ehren Kruger. He starts out saying that you make a movie 3 times. You write it, you shoot it and then you edit it.
What he said struck me about what’s happened in New Orleans. "…in the horror genre. It's so visceral that things that read scary on the page often don't work on the screen and things that read mundane on the page --you know, 'She walks down the hallway' -- can be entirely gripping." “The levee breaks” is entirely gripping.
My prayers go out to all of you!
Laura
LauraCohnMusic.com
http://www.LauraCohnMusic.com
Where Music Meets Artistry
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