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An old Eagles song from the 70s, “The Last Resort,” saw this day coming:

“They call it paradise

I don’t know why

You call someplace paradise

Kiss it goodbye.”

It’s a song about how California was bound to eventually lose its luster as one of the country’s paradise places, with everlasting sunshine, pristine mountains, endless ocean beaches and opportunity for everyone. No place can stand long against that sort of image-making. Don Henley said it this way: “The gist of the song was that when we find something good, we destroy it by our presence.” 

Perhaps just the gesture of declaring a place paradise sows the seeds of its demise. Such thinking goes all the way back to Adam and Eve getting booted from Eden: nothing gold can stay.

The apocalyptic fires in L.A. certainly feel like a death knell for California dreamin’. L.A. looks like one of those dystopian scenes in all those end-of-the-world movies Hollywood makes now, rather than …