Social Contract

From Rude Pundit

But the Bush adminstration has broken the basic social contract in New Orleans, the one that goes all the way back to Thomas Hobbes and John Locke, the one that says we adhere to laws because you agree to protect us, and thus the city and its citizens have returned to the state of nature, which is to survive, motherfuckers, just survive.

And still there are people talking about never returning to New Orleans.... an attitude born out of either 1) A bigoted desire to blame the poor for their own plight or 2) A childlike irrational fear imposed by the "trauma" of sitting in your air conditioned living room drinking lemonade and watching people suffer on TV. That's fine, though. I'm going back. And when my city is rebuilt I don't really feel like sharing it with assholes.