Is Los Angeles a dystopia?

[HardDrive]

"L.A. riot police break up 600-student brawl
Rival gangs spark chaos at high school campus; 4 students arrested"

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24555065/

[sammyg2]

Black gang members and hispanic gang members trying to kill each other over graffitti. So where's the problem?
With any luck they'll kill each other off and there will only be one left to throw in jail.
Can you tell I hate graffiti and the scumbag punks who do it?

[Mule]

Multiculturalism at it's best!

[scottmandue]

Unfortunately this has been going on for decades.

(See Zoot suite riots Latinos Vs Navy sailors in the 1940's)

My high school played against Locke and I was in the band... we were a little nervous when we went to their at home games.

[kstar]

From Wikipedia:

A dystopia (from the Greek δυσ- and τόπος, alternatively, cacotopia,[1] kakotopia, cackotopia, or anti-utopia) is the vision of a society that is the opposite of utopia. A dystopian society is a state in which the conditions of life are extremely bad, characterized by human misery, poverty, oppression, violence, disease, and/or pollution.

Some academic circles distinguish between anti-utopia and dystopia. As in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, a dystopia does not pretend to be utopian, while an anti-utopia appears to be utopian or was intended to be so, but a fatal flaw or other factor has destroyed or twisted the intended utopian world or concept

Having lived in L.A. for several years, I don't think it qualifies as a dystopia. Perhaps pockets of L.A. would qualify.

[scottmandue]

I would like to point out that no cavemen were involved in this riot.

I would also like to point out that this morning tens of thousands of people showed up at exposition park in south central Los Angeles to participate in "The Revlon Run", an event to raise money for breast cancer research.

But you won't hear about that in the news.

[Tobra]

I would say it is more of a cackotopia

[Porsche-O-Phile]

For the most part, yes.

I don't have much use for about 99% of L.A.

[scottmandue]

Originally Posted by Tobra

I would say it is more of a cackotopia

Did you mean to type crackotopia?

[Wickd89]

[QUOTE=sammyg2;3935050]Black gang members and hispanic gang members trying to kill each other over graffitti. So where's the problem?
With any luck they'll kill each other off and there will only be one left to throw in jail.
Can you tell I hate graffiti and the scumbag punks who do it?[/QUOTE

+1 Absolutely. I hate graffiti and the urban distruction they bring to good people.

[m21sniper]

Yet so many of you live there by choice.

Then look at me, i live in Philly. This is maybe the worst toilet in the country.

[sammyg2]

Originally Posted by m21sniper

Yet so many of you live there by choice.

Then look at me, i live in Philly. This is maybe the worst toilet in the country.

For the record, I don't live in LA. I live the other side of the orange curtain about 30 miles away.
Kinda like the difference between Philly and Lancaster.
I hate LA as much as the rest of the country does.
It would be a good place if it weren't for the majority of the people who live there.

[scottmandue]

As they say "don't let the screen door hit you in the butt"

[Tobra]

Quote:
A dystopia (from the Greek δυσ- and τόπος, alternatively, cacotopia,[1] kakotopia, cackotopia, or anti-utopia) is the vision of a society that is the opposite of utopia. A dystopian society is a state in which the conditions of life are extremely bad, characterized by human misery, poverty, oppression, violence, disease, and/or pollution.

Just thought cackotopia sounded funnier than dystopia

Crackotopia is pretty good though.

Bought a case of energy drink and a carton of smokes for the wife, called the stuff "Crackstar" which the gal running the register found quite amusing.

[widebody911]

San Francisco: cocktopia

[sammyg2]

Originally Posted by scottmandue

As they say "don't let the screen door hit you in the butt"

San Pedro, isn't that right next to Wilmington?

[the]

Originally Posted by widebody911

San Francisco: cocktopia

Bakersfield: truckstoptopia

[DARISC]

Originally Posted by Tobra

Bought a case of energy drink and a carton of smokes for the wife,

Please don't take this as an offensive comment, but, you are an M.D. and your wife smokes? How do you deal with that? Nicotine is inarguably the worst possible addiction - ask me how I know.

[m21sniper]

Originally Posted by DARISC

Please don't take this as an offensive comment, but, you are an M.D. and your wife smokes? How do you deal with that? Nicotine is inarguably the worst possible addiction - ask me how I know.

I quit smoking cold turkey after over 20 years of heavy smoking...on a whim.

Nicotine is my biitch.

[Milu]

Originally Posted by DARISC

Please don't take this as an offensive comment, but, you are an M.D. and your wife smokes? How do you deal with that? Nicotine is inarguably the worst possible addiction - ask me how I know.

My gf is a doctor and smokes camel lights.