LA is the only city I’ve lived in where the closest observers of it deny that it even exists. This is of course the clearest proof that it does. Just like the evangelical fervor of Strong AI types in insisting that consciousness is an illusion is the clearest proof that it isn’t.
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"LA is where u confront the objective fact that u mean nothing; the desert, the ocean, the tectonic plates,... – even the parking lots: everything there somehow precedes you, it's more abstract than you & indifferent to you. You don’t matter. You’re free." bldgblog.com/2007/10/greate
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I always figured the claim of it's nonexistence was akin to claims that matter doesn't exist, that is, that the constituent parts aren't LA at all, but at some point they act like LA
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Los Angeles is like Italy: thirteen cities separated by a common language.
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