Mike Davis described Los Angeles as an ‘apocalypse theme park’. How would ye endure such horror, oh pilgrim, to live here?

Mike Davis was full of sh-t for 30 years , and I’ve been rolling my eyes at him throughout.

He described Los Angeles as an “apocalypse theme park,” a place of ruin and pain, populated by hardened survivors who, “dutifully struggling” of clinging to a brutal landscape.

Los Angeles has disasters, yes, it burns, and we have earthquakes, but ease is the actual point of the place.

Bob Greene : Los Angeles is a place of absurd comfort that goes wrong every few years because we manage the modest risks.

Greene: The point to make is that we stopped preparing for that likelihood, slipping into the ease of the place on a raft made of luxury beliefs.

He says the vulnerability to natural disasters isn’t a distinctive feature of Los Angeles — zero , nada , none, not at all, it’s the universal human condition, mitigated by action.