IN los angeles, unusual to hear the collapse of a police helicopter. Sound is close to background noise in this city. A reminder that somewhere, something happened, something you’re not about. it out therebut not HERE. But more, that sound has begun to jol in our contentment. In the last five years, that sound is notified of the george floyd killing and the destruction of the palates and palisades. Instead of habitual – a high-speed police chase, a thief or other fodder for local news sensationalism – that way you live at the door of history again. This last week reminds us that our city is surrounded by a federal government eager for a fight. That our immigrant neighbors have gone, apparently APART Due to the process.
I get texts from family and friends who ask if I’m OK with all transpires. Most people outside LA don’t know how big this place is. That at these times, it feels that events are happening in another world. You can see someone who pours a bottle of water on their head on the sidewalk, trying as much as possible to lighten the damage caused by tears. Google Maps showed you the 101 freeway closed – a bright red line by your morning to commute. Congratulations give workers with bad views. Then, you have to work. You have to keep up. You can’t stop for a second to actually ponder your witness, or you may have been washed with crushing needs even in simple life.
In this year fires, I have to move houses. Movers come and good people quitting stairs, lifted boxes and expelled red horizon. Some restaurants remain open, serve food despite the poisonous air and overall feeling of apprehension that consumes the region. Most people, who do everything they can to gain a living so that we can be estimated to be normal, are immigrants from countries like Mexico, El Salvadore, Venezuela and wherever. They also opened the restaurants of the Covidowns or driving for the uber ate, too, so I feel normal in abnormal times.
And they do it again, but danger is easier. People are taken from their jobs, their homes, their schools – without warning and not their rights. For most of the Allah in LA, it may seem like this happening elsewhere. Downtown, the suburbs – but it is happened here. Within the arbitrary geographical lines that make the city of LA and in the nearby province. Those lines, as we do to divide us into state-state, essential, even if they are not natural. They are important because they know how we can create communities. The world is not brass, even if some of us may want. They exist, for better or worse.
Now, it feels worse. Donald Trump and his administration see the lines and they neglect it; They use it to create fear and chaos in our cities. They take people and throw them into unreasonable lines, they deny their dignity – Dignity filled with all people for all people. In a moment, it is easy to curse itself to unjust lines, because they causes great suffering. But those lines also create similarity. Especially at first, those of us should look at who and what is inside our city limits. Not because we should be afraid of what is outside, but because we need to take care of what is inside. We should always be careful, everywhere where violence occurs, but more when violence happens to those who share our home.
LA can be the greatest empirical attempt at the person who has not done. A nearly 500-square-mil town, with nearly 4 million residents spread to the ocean. Living in LA is to have a chance to live a perfect internal life. I haven’t seen the fires yet. I almost saw the dog. Destruction is moved to my TV screen, my smartphone. This is a city built in privacy, isolation and broken into neighborhoods surrounded by gates and private security. Mike Davis’s Seminal History of La Urbanismo, City of quartzThe account is built around the idea of LA as a pampered burnt of selfishness, striking in Paranoia and saw the prison industry complex. It makes a cultural score in our city because it’s always true. It can be a dark, lonely place. But it can also be a shelter, if you look from the ground, looking from behind your own anxiety and believes in the idea that there is more happening before you.
It’s a moment where we have the power to decide which class of city we want to live with. We can chew our will, our will and our community together together. We can pass the empirical test and it clearly in the world that LA is not a bastard unaccounted individual, but a communal city and diversity. I don’t know what the solution to this crisis is. The Governor Newsom reports to reject the National Guard Order, but it takes time, and the President has does not show much interest in following court judgments. All I know is that it doesn’t end unless the city and its population is strong in ideals and morals. That it stands even if it’s easy to see what’s going on as a different cause of bad traffic.
