On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 10:34:21PM -0400, Paul M Foster wrote:
> Been there, done that. I lived for several years in LA. I loved it.
> Buzzing with life, yet still laid back. Saw "Return of the Jedi" at
> Mann's Chinese the day it opened. I saw a lot of LA and surrounding
> areas, working as an electrician from Calabasas to Long Beach. Working on
> houses overlooking Sunset Blvd was terrific. You could (sometimes) see
> downtown LA and the Wilshire district. And I loved California. Beautiful
> place, with scores of interesting and breathtaking places to visit. I
> found people there generally not much different from anyone else in their
> everyday lives.
I'm not sure how it was then, I suppose I could ask my relatives that
have been there for the last 50 years, but to my knowledge the general
attitude in LA is *way* different than (a) it used to be and (b) the rest
of the state.
> _However_, while Californians are asleep at the wheel when it comes to
> their political representatives. The origin of this thread mentioned a
> California rep who actually got a law through the California legislature
> which regulated the length of hairstyles, based on some junk scientific
> study about accidents and hair styles. The only reason it's not a law is
> that the governor realized he couldn't get re-elected if he signed it
> into law (not, BTW, because it was a bad idea). And that was only one
> piece of the original story.
I would acredit this to a small percentage of the population agreeing
with it, or being stupid, but because it's a percentage, and California's
so large, it ends up being enough people.
> Californians are justifiably proud of their state, but politically they
> are clueless. (Not that they're alone in this.) They elect the most
> liberal of representatives and reap the rewards, such as they are. And
> they look upon the scene and wonder how this happened. The power crisis
> is a prime example of political ineptitude foisted off on the people of
> California.
s,proud,sane,
> California's more like 6 months to 2 years "ahead" of the rest of the
> nation. I lived there and moved here, and I saw the trends move outward.
> And if California's political/social trends move here, you'll hear me
> complaining long before 20 years is up.
Okay, 20 years ago it was 20 years ahead, socially; the time it takes
for the trend to reach the rest of the country is probably less now with
better forms of communication.
> Paul
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- Isaiah
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