'Fire, walk with me.' (Twin Peaks)
Indeed - forgive us for the comparison - the situation in Los Angeles seems like a bad, over-the-top action movie in which the savior/hero is played by Dwayne Johnson, this impression is especially evident after the avalanche of conspiracy theories begins, in which we can even hear: the fire is the Republicans' response to Hollywood stars who were categorically against the arrival Donald Trump to the helm of America, which the Democrats have made a leading force even in the depths of the crisis.
Ok: since, undoubtedly, reality itself has no order or meaning, things simply happen randomly, conspiracy theory is an escape where even fires have their purpose in the satisfaction of justice. How Biden's Politics did not devote as much as it promised to the problems of the common man, the fire made sure that the richest were at least temporarily homeless.
The incineration of Malibu, a multi-million dollar mansion that remains in ruins, brings immense pleasure to those in despair; it is called Leonardo DiCaprio, who doesn't care about the fire in his city even though he is among the prominent environmentalists. Without further ado, like in a film by some famous director who, in a crisis of inspiration, comes up with an idea - like a melancholic Nero - burn down the city/studio, the artificial paradise and phantasm, the dream factory.
In the ocean of comments, one could come across one that deserves to stand out: "Will a movie be made about this apocalypse in Los Angeles?"
Since we have so many movies with the theme of the cataclysm of that city, now the cataclysm has surpassed the film as a devastating reality. Hence, the ingenious Simpsons could not be skipped, which is increasingly believed to be - prophets: a meme immediately popped up from one of the episodes where we see the Los Angeles area under fire. If we were to follow that lead, would the vision from the film then be realized in the near future? Escape from Los Angeles?
The architecture of the megapolis seems to have its own enjoyment hides in apocalyptic destruction. Phallic skyscrapers melt in a fiery palace of unbridled fire; a scene in which the very Id of a city that has turned itself into fiction is illuminated, since everything there is unrealized, bewitched, cinematically capitalistally created. - Twilight Boulevard in the timeless twilight of sulfur!
After a fire like this that hit Los Angeles, is there really any point in making any more movies about the disaster that strikes that city? Reality, for the most part, shows a more terrifying scenario than any special effects-laden movie; in addition, actors are also involved in this cataclysm: Entoni Hopkins, Tom Henks, Paris Hilton... Trump tweets that Los Angeles will never be the same again, and that's something we have to accept. Rumors are circulating that the famous letters have been burned. Hollywood. Suddenly: fiction and reality are roughly mixed, producing all sorts of information, of which it no longer matters whether it is true or not. - The city of film reached out to tell a real story that goes beyond any film about it..
The film has, therefore, told its story, reality now takes on the main role in the ecological disasters that will be recorded by smartphones, footage created with a nostalgic look back at the fantastic landscapes from the story of how it once existed. degree & studio who filmed the history of that city, all the way to the cinematic works of its final catastrophe.
Looking deeper, and in connection with what has been said: saturated with film scenes of hell, we needed hell itself, without production, acting, stars, staged in a reality that suddenly and unannouncedly returns. The shock and trauma lie in this: just when we thought that we had finally, once and for all, gotten rid of reality, it refreshed itself and dealt the hardest blow. Even film as a preparation for something like this was of no help, and even artificial intelligence could not - we read on CCN - restrain the force of Mother Nature. So: what if anthropocentrism without a trace is the last chance to protect ourselves from the disturbed natural balance, before nature itself destroys everything?
The progressive reversal of order is also reflected in nature, its response is unbridled, merciless and chaotic, it is a reaction to capitalist action in the form of endless exploitation. Although the hottest year since temperatures were measured is behind us, everything remains a warning sign, another summit on the climate crisis, another postponement of urgently taking the first steps towards 'defossilization’ SAD i Kine.
However, planet or profit, that choice cannot be made in the neoliberal system, simply - profit always has an incomparable advantage, because it is so dependent on its production that the planet would end up without the dynamism by which it is governed. Let us therefore change our thinking a little. Oscar Wilde: A capitalist is a man who chooses both evils..
According to official data, the economy of Los Angeles is stronger than the French economy, taking into account this fact, as well as the fact that the USA is clearly in crisis, this fire is an alarm that will further make Trump's moves hasty, and the current global situation needs this the least. However, the pressing of progress, the forcing of the fictitious supremacy of the dollar, cannot be stopped, nothing of the proposal according to which, since we have changed too much, now it is time to stop and start thinking about the world. Because, from the arms race to the rise of Asian capital, the crisis threatens the decline of the West, all the more so the slogan 'Make America great again', should breathe morale into the common man, the collapsed middle and working class, the average white person, etc. Rather, if we were to speak at the level of pathos, perhaps this is an opportunity for the USA to rise like a phoenix from the ashes, although such a thing is only possible in films with an obligatory happy ending in which the actor mentioned at the beginning of the text stars, today one of the highest paid actors.
DREAM FACTORY AND THE UNCONSCIOUS
Concluding the address to the nation (film '2012'), the American president looks at the camera from the Oval Office and then utters the famous words: 'God bless America!'
Jacques Lacan analyzes a dream from Freud's 'Dream interpretations'', in which the old master writes about a father who watches over the bier of his dying son. When his son dies, the father retires to a nearby chamber, asking an old man to pray over his dead son. The exhausted father falls asleep at one point (“God is unconscious."Lacan), his son appeared to him in a dream with reproachful words: "Father, can't you see I'm burning?!” Suddenly startled from his sleep, the father sees a bright light coming from the room where his dead son lies, enters there and notices that a candle has covered part of the bier, because in the meantime the old man has also fallen asleep. Couldn't America also say: Father, can't you see that I'm burning?
That cry from the desert around Los Angeles (a megalopolis is a small territory compared to the concentric circles of the desert/periphery that it scatters outside itself, into an abandoned 'orbit', a worn-out space inhabited by mega-warehouses), the sleeping father, therefore, the 'God who is unconscious', although he hears, does not discern whether it is a fiction with an apocalyptic theme that has been tried so many times, or, on the contrary, a real event in which fire consumes itself? Basically, this is the price of mimesis, that God can fulfill desires born and transferred from fiction, which have called upon a destructive reality to come for its own. All the more so, however, we cannot protect ourselves from desires that are always already desires against ourselves.
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