~Hell, as usual.

I watch, as the media coverage shifts gears. It goes from live footage, to lots of talking about nothing really important. Pretty soon, it'll shift to just reporting the death toll and showing week old images, over and over and over.

Eventually, people will forget. The drama, gone from their living rooms, will magically reappear, in the shape of "Reality TV". People don't want to hear about things that don't directly affect them, unless it's hyperdramatic... with "Amazing Grace" being crooned in the background and lots of crying children.

All this happened, and still, people don't understand that long before this hurricane, these people's lives were hell, and that they will continue to be hell. They don't really care either, not without the drama... not without the media telling them what to react to. They'll go back to "They just don't want to work", and "Let a stranger into my home? What if they steal something?" They'll go back to worrying about the price of gasoline, and trying to find the latest, greatest computer game. That's what happens. That's how it's set up. That's how we've been raised. We're slaves who whip themselves... and we don't even know it. When we're instructed to close our eyes, we do.

Fear. It works every time.