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81 " The military and National Guard were deployed to prevent things that often existed largely in their imagination. "
― Rebecca Solnit , A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
82 " Utopia itself is rarely more than an ideal or an ephemeral pattern on which to shape the real possibilities before us. "
83 " But much of what happened after the levees broke didn’t have to. It was the result of fear. When Tierney was speaking about elite panic—“fear of social disorder; fear of poor, minorities, and immigrants; obsession with looting and property crime; willingness to resort to deadly force; and actions taken on the basis of rumor”—she was talking shortly after Katrina, "
84 " The door to this era's potential paradises is hell. "