Since moving to Los Angeles, I had always wondered why things were broken, and people unkind and the city was not Hollywood glamor, but rather a decaying, remarkably poor city physically falling to pieces. Listening to this help me understand the moral and economic values of Angelenos which cause LA, which should be a great city, to instead be miserable place.
I don’t enjoy listening to this. The way they make fun of the city council, and belittle people who have different opinions or policy proposals from the authors. It actually makes me really upset to listen to this podcast. I do disagree with many of their policies, but what makes me more mad is to share their goals, and know the they policies they arrogantly advocate for will undermine those very goals. I hate the way they act as though their one idea is the only way to accomplish something, and that smaller, viable steps, are not just insufficient, but bad policy. It upsets me.
Listening though, I do understand Los Angeles better. This podcast reinforces that while I see this LA as a terrible place: poor, dirty, violent and economically stratified place; it is like that because there are clearly many people, like the authors of this podcast, who advocate for policies that make it poor, dirty and violent which leads to economic stratification by people feeling to adjacent corridors.
And for that understanding, I suppose I should say ‘thank you’.
