It is a 100% sensate, 0% ideational society. Not a bad thing. Words here are narrowly instrumental. Truth lies in sensations. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitirim_S
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This is of course a hundred TV shows and movies talking as much as my direct impressions, but itās like words and meanings have been left behind on the screen for the rest of the world for who, Hollywood spins narrative magic. The city itself is backstage of its own global brand.
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Went to Hollywood yesterday. The Walk of Fame is ā and thereās no polite way to put it ā incredibly tawdry. My wife told me itās basically something you buy with PR dollars, not a great earned honor. Itās basically a big brother to Vegas, with better distribution for products.
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This essay shared yesterday hits the nail on the head wrt my immediate impressions. bldgblog.com/2007/10/greate
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In many ways it feels like my head was meant to be in this space though Iām the opposite of sensate. Iām probably 100% ideational. Still, this landscape feels like the right backdrop for a lot of my thinking.
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Example: Divergentism, is a very LA type idea. People retreating from each other in an expanding social universe where they gradually lose the ability to connect.
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āNo true Angelinoā? š¤£
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Oh god, that's not where you go to explore LA!
Some mixed suggestions:
- both Getty's and LACMA
- aquarium
- Mulholland drive
- drive along crest of San Gabriel mountains in the Angeles forest
- Huntington gardens or Arboretum
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Harmonizes with my impressions (Iāve been here as a resident for 3 days, but as a visitor have spent perhaps 10-12 days across 5-6 trips over 15 years... so not entirely a cold intro for me)
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I've been to LA twice, and it's always seemed less of a city and more of a resigned diagnosis that gets slapped on after all of the quantifiable tests come back inconclusive.
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I thought of getting more active on Instagram as a way to process LA as creative input, but Iām probably not sensate enough for that. Itāll have to be words. Whether twitter threads or an LA diary blogchain remains to be seen.
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I have half-ass promised a dozen people in LA to get coffee/drinks with across 3-4 messengers and email. I have no idea how to get a considerate social thing going.
The āLA slackerā syndrome @Mapophenic told me about is already infecting me (canāt find link... will add later)
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Found the link, thanks Megan.
LA flaker, not slacker, though I suppose that too š.
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All in the long tradition of snap takes struggling to make sense of this sprawl... check out Pershing square right by you and this canonical quote publicartinla.com/Downtown/figue
If you read one book about so cal, Careyās so cal country is still the one
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