Comments | wwidsith: In which our hero showers and feels an access of righteous anger

wwidsith

In which our hero showers and feels an access of righteous anger

Jan 30, 2010 15:13

Guys, I have just had two showers in a row. Oh Lord. I'm on my way back and I feel amazing. My films sold really well with clients, apparently - my boss is happy with me and so I'm happy, although I could have stayed for another month and never run out of things to film.

Every day there was extraordinary. Speeding around the city on the back of a ( Read more... )

can't i use my wit as a pitchfork, haiti, films, always roaming with a hungry heart

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surrealkitten January 31 2010, 22:50:21 UTC

Your descriptions of what you experienced are very moving. I don't really know what to say. Thank you for helping me see the disaster with some realism.

wwidsith February 1 2010, 10:27:34 UTC

Thank you! I hardy got any comments on the Haiti stuff actually. I think I'd better get back to talking about etymology and creative frustration!

surrealkitten February 1 2010, 15:21:25 UTC

I'm not surprised nobody commented. Nobody really knows what to say. Stunned, respectful silence is very difficult to quantify, but it is a better reaction than that from someone who can speak candidly in the face of horror. I don't particularly like those people.

wwidsith February 2 2010, 12:47:58 UTC

Yeah- you're right.
(Although speaking candidly in the face of horror is kind of part of my job..)

norabird February 2 2010, 17:45:56 UTC

I'd really like to do some reading on NGOs sometime. I have a friend whose PhD research centered on health NGOs in India, and he was always very wary of the 'big business' side of it. But where there are problems and good intentions with funding, you can't just write them off. Hm. I suppose it's just so hard to get good intentions to do any real help.

wwidsith February 3 2010, 17:27:08 UTC

No totally -- they do a great job. It's just weird to see them all in action driving around in air-conditioned jeeps taking photos.

weofodthignen February 3 2010, 03:42:52 UTC

I'm glad you got out safe.

Your descriptions were worth 1,000 pictures, frankly. And yeah, the Haitians are fucked. I hadn't even realised that on top of everything else they were in a seismically active place.

Someone else posted that the UN pulled all its medical staff from a hospital right after the quake because it wasn't adequately "protected" and the result was that a CNN medical correspondent and his crew had to do all the doctoring - on camera and with virtually no medical supplies because the doctors and nurses had taken them with them. Here it is, and I found and watched the segment but of course couldn't hear a lot of the words (you speak more clearly than the Americans). So I'm unusually pissed off at the UN right now. Also someone else told me Haiti was basically being run by a UN guy and when he was killed there was no government to make the necessary formal declaration of emergency and so the US and others held off on sending aid because they hadn't heard from somebody official. Typical. Poor bastiches ( ... )

anonymous February 12 2010, 23:05:27 UTC

It's wonderful to have a window into your world, however challenging it might be. me