On day three, I had finished my list of categories with involvement. I had Government, Social Economic Class, Scientific Involvement, Music, Religion, Race, and high temperatures. I put these down because I felt like they all played a big roll on the way that the people handled things.
On this post, I want to focus on the idea of chaos changing our sense of judgment. On day two and three of watching the Hurricane Katrina movie, a few things were shown to us. Looting was something that was extremely disturbing to me and that was a huge issue in New Orleans. In a calm environment, or rather said, in normal circumstances, most people do not go around looting and clearing up stores. It’s morally incorrect to many of us to do such things. We also hear about babies being raped in the Superdome, which is an exaggeration but highlights a main and true issue. Children were being raped, not necessarily in the Superdome but elsewhere. I found this to be disgusting not just because it involves rape but because its done to kids who for one probably have a bad life as it is and then for someone to go up to them and ruin it even more it just gross. Something else that is brought up in this movie is killing. People are killing each other for either their own protection or for their needs which is understandable in a way but its still out of character for most people.
It’s hard to take in these events because we live in a society were rules of what is okay to do and what is not okay to do are very clear. It is also hard to think that we the ‘smartest and most advanced’ species, can become so inhuman when placed in a space full of chaos and where we are forced to try and survive and protect those we care about. I guess it can be somehow related to what some mothers say, “I’m like a momma bear, if anyone touches my cub, I don’t know what I’m capable of doing.” Momma bear is each one of us and our cub is all those whom we care about and all those things that we feel are necessary for us. Someone touching our cub is like a stranger coming into our space and in times of chaos, they might not be in our space because they mean harm but we take it that way because we come to expect the worst in people. Why is it that when things are going wrong we tend to expect thinks to continue to go wrong and we forget that even in the worst of time, there are good things?
I think we come to this type of thinking because all bad events are traumatic in some kind of way. They leave a mark on us that never fully disappear. Chaos is created by a series of negative events or one big event that lead to many smaller problems. So basically, once there is chaos in one place, it is very likely that it will spread. The growing sense of chaos can throw one off track and our priorities will change depending on the devastating event. Our philosophy will probably change from thinking long term and saying we want a better future to thinking short term and wanting to get through the day. I think we become more selfish and act on impulse when we are pushed to and passed our limit, which tends to be when chaos breaks out.
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