.....delusional hope! Laughing very hard on this end!
Well, then there is the pragmatism of Rorty. Your dad sounds like Thoreau in Walden. And you, at the end, sound a little Integral-- as in Ken Wilber of Denver infamy:)
.....delusional hope! Laughing very hard on this end!
Well, then there is the pragmatism of Rorty. Your dad sounds like Thoreau in Walden. And you, at the end, sound a little Integral-- as in Ken Wilber of Denver infamy:)
I feel any hope related to L.A. is delusional. :D
I get that. I used to hitch-hike to Cali every year in the eighties and I much preferred the coastal towns to what I considered the 'madness' of L.A.
BTW: the cost of living there is directly related to global neoliberal economics (you may know this). Cities all over the world have become 'fiefdoms' for the oligarchic class under this form of economic thought. Vancouver has suffered the same dismal fate........I call it the mafia casino ethic transferred into the field of economics...Or, as Al Pacino's character said in The Godfather, "I want to go legit" .....They damn well succeeded and to a scale that probably surprised even them!
Yes, I've been aware of that to a certain extent, but haven't researched it too deeply because it just frustrates me. Paying $500,000+ for a run down, boring stucco box in a sketchy neighborhood in L.A. (probably Gardena AT BEST) doesn't align with what I want in life. I wouldn't move to where my dad lives, but I'm thinking Big Bear might not be such a bad place for me soon...
Oh, yeah, depressing as fcuk if you didn't win or play in their casino! Hey, an L.A. anecdote and true story! Summer of 81.....My buddy and I wound up in DT LA at around midnight and a bus driver pulled up and told us we better get in as it wasn't exactly safe for us to be there. We give him the lowdown that we're just long-haired dumb fcukin' Canucks and he ends up inviting us to stay at his place. We agree and it turns out he was in possession of a pound of fcukin' weed and we stayed there in San Bernadino and smoked all of it with him....Cool guy but couldn't keep house worth siht....maggots in his fcukin' kitchen! Being good Canucks we did clean it for him.....