A Civilizational Vacuum

One of most revealing things we have seen emerge from the Katrina crisis is the different ways in which people have reacted to the situation and how The Elite Media Monoculture has gone to extreme lengths to avoid noticing. After all, New Orleans was not the only location which was ravaged by the storm. But somehow the breakdown of civilization seemed to be limited to New Orleans while other areas, such as those in Mississippi and Alabama, had no such eruption of mass anarchy. In The American Spectator George Neumayr writes about this phenomenon and points to a lack of civilizational values; a point which I also made earlier.

A free republic such as ours cannot be made to function if its citizens are unable or unwilling to govern themselves according to the dictates of civilized norms of conduct. We need to have a populace that is self-responsible and self-reliant in order to have the foundation for a free nation. But this idea of self-responsibility is just what modern leftist thought is set against. The entire notion of a vast and all encompassing welfare state socialism is predicated on the idea that individuals are not competent to run their own lives and that therefore the state must do it for them. But this idea inevitably leads to a population that no longer see itself as pro-active but rather as passive. Thus large numbers of people waited for others to come and save them, rather than acting at once to get out of harms way. What other explanation can there be for the vast number of cars and buses which were left to be flooded while there was still time to drive out of the city?

The reality is that many people simply didn't take responsibility for their own safety and thus were left helpless when the storm approached. And it was the ideology of dependency which left them that way. The Elite Media Monoculture has helped to inculcate this ideology in those people who stayed behind even though they had transportation, thereby leaving them intellectually helpless in the face of a crisis which demanded immediate action.

And isn't it interesting to observe that it is the left which claims to be "compassionate" with regard to these same people? Ask yourself if you agree that it is compassionate for the left to make you into a helpless, witless victim; unable to act to act to save yourself, while thus forced to wait for an equally witless Democrat run state and local bureaucracy to save you.