Thanks for the reference to the book. I will see if my library carries it as it sounds so interesting.
What you say about how people respond to disaster is interesting. I had a friend who was in America for Burning Man when Katrina struck. They went in to a media blackout with the last news being the hurricane had missed New Orleans. Then they spent days in a radical experiement in communal living - and then came out to see the media was saying things were so very bad in New Orleans. As it turned out there was community level cooperation in New Orleans too, but it was not at all what the media narrative was about at the time.
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Date: 2011-05-28 11:49 pm (UTC)What you say about how people respond to disaster is interesting. I had a friend who was in America for Burning Man when Katrina struck. They went in to a media blackout with the last news being the hurricane had missed New Orleans. Then they spent days in a radical experiement in communal living - and then came out to see the media was saying things were so very bad in New Orleans. As it turned out there was community level cooperation in New Orleans too, but it was not at all what the media narrative was about at the time.