I was intrigued and horrified at the speed that the social situation in New Orleans disintegrated into the horrible dog eat dog scenario that it did. Like many people I felt alerted to the proximity of chaos, the fragility of our developed society and the dark side to otherwise pleasant ordinary people.

It seems unbelievable to us that a society that has so much material wealth and holds itself in such high esteem, could have coped so badly, and displayed itself as rotten with such speed. This was not nice.

Yet we are faced with the facts that for all the resources at their disposal, they didn’t get it together. Why?