"You can’t rebuild the same. We have to rebuild with science. We have to build with climate reality in mind," California Gov. Gavin Newsom told CNN last week in an interview about rebuilding the burned-out Pacific Palisades. "We have to look at infrastructure or redundancy systems. Ingress, egress, as it relates to emergency management and planning materials."
The interview seems to have flown under the radar, but when I caught it this morning, a bit belatedly, my alarm bells went off left and right.
Well, to be honest, they were all on the left.
Whatever happened to Newsom's promise that he'd eliminate red tape and accelerate the rebuilding of one of L.A.'s nicest and most historic neighborhoods? The former homeowners of Pacific Palisades who were hoping to quickly rebuild from the ashes now understand to their very cores what Otter told Flounder in "Animal House": "You f***ed up, you trusted us."
It was revealed last week that the "philanthropist" would be paid $500,000 for overseeing all that official graft and corruption, but Soboroff quickly backed down and said he'd do it for free. Don't worry, everybody — Soboroff included — will get their beaks plenty wet.
But it's the SCIENCE! part that gets me, the hubristic notion that a certain credentialed class of people have all the correct answers and that everyone else must be made to conform to their vision. "Follow the science" is the dumbed-down-for-television version of Marx and Engel's "scientific socialism" that masked their totalitarian nightmare behind a dreamy gauze of "scientific" logic.
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The interview seems to have flown under the radar, but when I caught it this morning, a bit belatedly, my alarm bells went off left and right.
Well, to be honest, they were all on the left.
Whatever happened to Newsom's promise that he'd eliminate red tape and accelerate the rebuilding of one of L.A.'s nicest and most historic neighborhoods? The former homeowners of Pacific Palisades who were hoping to quickly rebuild from the ashes now understand to their very cores what Otter told Flounder in "Animal House": "You f***ed up, you trusted us."
It was revealed last week that the "philanthropist" would be paid $500,000 for overseeing all that official graft and corruption, but Soboroff quickly backed down and said he'd do it for free. Don't worry, everybody — Soboroff included — will get their beaks plenty wet.
But it's the SCIENCE! part that gets me, the hubristic notion that a certain credentialed class of people have all the correct answers and that everyone else must be made to conform to their vision. "Follow the science" is the dumbed-down-for-television version of Marx and Engel's "scientific socialism" that masked their totalitarian nightmare behind a dreamy gauze of "scientific" logic.
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