Why We Should Remember that Twenty Years Ago, the Home of the Super Bowl was a Human Rights Catastrophe

Jack Mackinnon, senior director of cultural insights for Collage, points to some 2024 year-end research conducted by his firm that suggests that, even if older Americans are inclined to remember the Superdome’s role in Hurricane Katrina, many are so worn down by today’s sociopolitical tensions to reflect on it for very long.“Everybody is feeling sick and tired of being in the cycle of expecting new things, expecting change, and the government underdelivering,” Mackinnon said. “Everybody is feeling a sense of burnout.”