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Los Angeles Paperback – September 1, 1992
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- Print length272 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateSeptember 1, 1992
- Dimensions6 x 0.67 x 9 inches
- ISBN-100671792105
- ISBN-13978-0671792107
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- Publisher : Simon & Schuster (September 1, 1992)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 272 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0671792105
- ISBN-13 : 978-0671792107
- Item Weight : 14.5 ounces
- Dimensions : 6 x 0.67 x 9 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #5,089,550 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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With uninterrupted immigration, and 30,000+ people dumped out of jails, Los Angeles is very much a "Third World City". Some of the people from the first big caravan of people from the Rio Olympics, made it through before Trump was inaugurated, and now there is a destruction of toilets, and poop everywhere, because they don’t know how to use them! Just in September (2018) A "six-tine Mexican deportee" killed six people, three of whom were homeless and killed in their sleep...and it barely made the news. Add to that a “party bus” shooting of four people (one of whom died) by the Santa Monica Pier (under which one of the serial killer’s non-homeless victim was found), and the guy who reportedly decapitated himself in an alleged “hanging suicide” in a downtown Santa Monica parking garage (though someone apparently did the EXACT same thing in nearby Culver City). How about the “comic book artist” son of a Canadian billionaire who killed, decapitated, and drained the blood of his baby-mamma in West Hollywood? Meanwhile, Downtown Los Angeles has become the “Homeless Drug-induced Zombie Nightmare”. None of this make so-called MSM news...so the delusion continues...
Really, what has to happen for people to admit California has become a NIGHTMARE?
(The truth, is that “San Francisco is The Capital of Third World USA”.)
His verbosity can read like a broken faucet: his tap runneth over.
David Rieff spent several months in Southern California in the early 1990s, and the only thing he learned was that there was a higher percentage of Hispanics and Asians than in other parts of the country. Not a particularly deep insight. One hour spent driving along Wilshire Blvd. from downtown LA to the Pacific Ocean would have told him as much.
Rieff's conclusion -- "We must love one another or die" -- is extremely weak. Perhaps Los Angeles simply defeated him. He was intellectually and emotionally ill-equiped the diversity he experienced. It is a little surprising how much recent immigration shocked Rieff in the early 1990s. While changing demographics may have been more apparent in LA than elsewhere, one has to wonder to what extent Rieff, a New York intellectual, knew his own backyard. Did he ever venture to the outer boroughs of New York City? If he did, he would have learned that new immigrants were transforming more than just Los Angeles. For example, while Rieff was writing "Capital", Main Street, Queens (little more than a long fly ball from Shea Stadium) was almost exclusively Indian and Chinese.
I also got the feeling that Rieff's exposure to Los Angeles was limited to the living rooms of affluent Westside whites and the barrio of East Los Angeles. I doubt he visited any predominantly black or Asian-areas, much less most of the heavily white areas. If he did, he failed to share it with his readers.
Finally, not only is Rieff lacking in substance but also in style. Much of his prose is turgid and convoluted. His overly dense style and constant repetition turn reading "Capital" into a chore after about 150 pages.
PLEASE. No more editions.







