Intersting to think about the Barbary Coast pirate mentality in New Orleans. But then, what is the reason for such similar lawlessness in our inner city ghettos all across the country?
I can’t explain the ghetto mentality nationwide except to postulate that it might be a DNA tribal memory thing.
What I’d like to know is if any other city takes the PRIDE in its perversity that N.O. does. The mentality is so ingrained here, across the culture, that any attempts to change it are met with ‘get out, we don’t need you here’!
People actually SAY that being TOO CLEAN and serious and business oriented would make N.O. too much like the boring Midwest! Decay is romanticized and all the negatives are excused as the price of ‘living in paradise’!!