In Setback for New Orleans, Fed-Up Residents Give Up
New Orleans has always been a city of enormous, impenetrable contradictions. For evidence of this, one need not look any further than Oyster's two latest posts. The first is an eloquent salute to the spirit of defiance felt by all of us as for the second consecutive year our Carnival becomes a cathartic funeral dance; a celebration of life and hope but also a remembrance of so much death and hopelessness.
The second is built around the NYT story I've linked at the top here which documents the increasing despair as more and more New Orleanians reach their breaking point. My ever-sunny comments are visible below this post as well.
We're still doing this the only way we know how... by laughing and dancing in the face of the intolerable. Can we do this indefinitely without relief?
Update: That's the spirit! Oyster follows up this profound pair of posts by asking himself.. What Would Ian.. or maybe Rose do?
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