It appeals to / points out the hope in all of this:  the coming together of the victims ,  and the joining of their resistance by people who “work for their right to be a part of a communal recovery”…….

New Orleans:

And, with the dispossession by corporations and public private partnerships in New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina (with which the book begins): (p.465) “In February 2007, groups of residents who had lived in the public housing projects that the Bush administration was planning to demolish began ‘reinvading’ their old homes and taking up residence. Volunteers helped clean out apartments and raised money to buy generators and solar panels.”

Klein concludes (p. 466), “The best way to recover from helplessness turns out to be helping – having the right to be part of a communal recovery.”… “These are movements that do not seek to start from scratch but rather from scrap, from the rubble that is all around. As the corporatist crusade continues its violent decline, turning up the shock dial to blast through the mounting resistance it encounters, these projects point a way forward between fundamentalisms. Radical only in their intense practicality, rooted in the communities where they live, these men and women see themselves as mere repair people , taking what’s there and fixing it, reinforcing it, making it better and more equal. Most of all, they are building in resilience – for when the next shock hits.”

Review of Naomi Klein’s “The Shock Doctrine” | Webdiary – Founded and Inspired by Margo Kingston

This is much like I see the role of the church as  a matter of a “communal recovery” group tasked with the resistance to the “ways of the world” (as represented by the false saviors like free market fundamentalisms,  as advanced by the Bush administration and other participants in the corporatist elites who are the principalities who seek to construct false “savior economies”.  I NEED this community of recovery,  to heal the wounds,  to empower me to withstand the culture in which we have become SO complicit.