Speculators rushing in as the water recedes
Would-be home buyers are betting New Orleans will be a boomtown.
Brace yourself for this shocker.
And many of the city’s poorest residents could end up being forced out.
I can see it now, a “restored” French Quarter
surrounded by pricey condos and homes. A simulacrum of what once was
real, existing as image only, with no real soul. And free from all
those pesky non-wealthy people.
A common definition of the simulacrum
is a copy of a copy whose relation to the model has become so
attenuated that it can no longer properly be said to be a copy.
is a copy of a copy whose relation to the model has become so
attenuated that it can no longer properly be said to be a copy.