The Whole P.K. Dick Thing Is Starting to Make Sense
Posted by Sunday on Dec 8, 2008 at 8:12 pm in Daily Space, The FutureI could spend time writing about the essence of Los Angeles, but luckily Geoff Manaugh already did it for me:
“The whole thing is ridiculous. It’s the most ridiculous city in the world – but everyone who lives there knows that. No one thinks that L.A. “works,” or that it’s well-designed, or that it’s perfectly functional, or even that it makes sense to have put it there in the first place; they just think it’s interesting. And they have fun there.
And the huge irony is that Southern California is where you can actually do what you want to do; you can just relax and be ridiculous. In L.A. you don’t have to be embarrassed by yourself.”
Not a single word of this essay is untrue.
From the delightfully, functionally futuristic bldgblog.
Well, I’m relieved then. Because when I was in LA I was pretty much freaking out over how completey screwed up the place was and I feared for mankind in general since we spawned such a place. But as long as everyone knows it’s a cluster frak, I can sleep better now. (And the subway! What? Just… what?)