Los Angeles in the news just makes me think about how True Detective Season 2 was the "real parapolitics" season & Season 1 was just pulp horror garbage designed to get enough money to make Season 2, & then the show had to be destroyed because Season 2 was too real.
Los Angeles-- what is it? What is it really? It is really a crossroads, ports, highways, gigantic industrial projects, artificial rivers, power stations. It is really a gritty industrial machine-- the powers that operate it are not "Hollywood" or "Media"-- it is criminal
"There's the Hollywood Pedophiles" Yeah sure, there's that-- but is that the real power? No. It's the highways. It's the land developers. It's "who owns the water"-- "Forget it Jake. It's Chinatown." The question isn't "who is fucking who"-- it's "what happened to the street
The whole show is actually about the corrupt dealings of Vernon California ("Vinci" in the show)-- "The population was 112 at the 2010 United States census, the least of any incorporated city in the state." An incorporated city with no real population-- a shell city run as the
The "child sex trafficking" runs downstream of the "banking family shell city" https://www.latimes.com/archiv...
Another great show for really understanding LA (I mean, aside from the works of David Lynch) -- TOO OLD TO DIE YOUNG-- panned by critics for, similarly, being TOO REAL about what LA actually is. Any media that foregrounds the fact that LA is a *materially real place made of
Los Angeles & the Dallas-Fort-Worth Metroplex are more similar than not. Same sort of vibes. There is an eeriness to a place that exists so concretely as an embodiment of the abstract. Los Angeles is a desert-- Dallas has no water either-- they exist for the benefit of commerce