Hurricane Katrina Showed How Quickly It Can All Fall Apart | Defector↗

" I rewatched a few of his earlier movies, including his sweeping 2006 documentary about Hurricane Katrina, When the Levees Broke. More than any other event of the 21st century—including 9/11 and the 2008 financial crisis—Katrina is the catastrophe that best illuminates the dark path that has led us to 2025. To this day, no one can pin down exactly who or what was to blame for the disaster and its even more disastrous response; the failure was total and multilayered. And, as Lee's documentary made plain, it was the moment when Americans realized that their country was capable of fully abandoning them, even in their time of greatest need."