This article explores the disturbingly gleeful reactions to the recent wildfires in California, particularly among those who view suffering as a form of moral comeuppance for the wealthy and successful. It criticizes this callous perspective and highlights the emotional toll on those who have lost their homes and livelihoods, including countless artists and artisans who contribute to Hollywood's success.
A property is destroyed by the Palisades Fire along Sunset Boulevard in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles on Jan. 10.– nightmarish scenes that appeared conjured from the kind of audacious blockbusters that Hollywood itself sells – I couldn’t help but notice an ugly, barely disguised sense of glee among certain commentators. People who view natural disasters as some kind of moral comeuppance, believing that the rich rarely suffer, or that extreme virtue has extreme costs.
Certainly, some of those who lost a home this week have a second, or third, to go running toward. They will, ultimately, be fine. But they are not beyond the reach of human emotions, either, nor were they awarded their privileges by luck. Anyone who can claim success in Hollywood does so in an almost-impossible-to-enter business, be they actors, directors, producers or even writers. Many fought tooth and nail, through rejection and heartache, to get where they are.
The hardest-hit neighbourhood of Pacific Palisades, for instance, was home to thousands of the everyday working artisans who keep the entertainment industry humming. These people provide for their families by providing our culture. Production designers, makeup artists, lighting technicians, camera operators, painters, visual-effects artists, publicists, editors, musicians, sound engineers – they make Hollywood’s dream factory run.
After enduring a series of tectonic crises – the pandemic, the strikes, the recessionary-spiked production slowdown – all of Hollywood was looking forward to a new, more hopeful year. “Survive till ‘25” was the manta. And then everything burned. Who will be left to come back from this? The entertainment industry is built on resiliency, but there are only so many knocks you can take. And there are other threats looming, too.
WILDFIRES CALIFORNIA HOLLYWOOD ART SYMPATHY
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