Dude, who even knows.
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me: the Getty Villa is closing for the Malibu fire
also me: not for fear of burning, the Villa and the Getty Center in the Sepulveda Pass (of the Santa Monica mountains cutting through LA) have elaborate systems to protect their priceless classical collections from smoke, fire, and earthquake
me: but isn’t it just a great summary of California’s — and America’s — land baron, extractive, unsubtle history that we build these boomtowns and put these (hey Hearst Castle) absurd collections of ancient classical art right in the path of every natural disaster you can imagine?
also me: you realize that the Roman practice of collecting fancy prestige objects and putting them in pretty rich-guy villas on Mediterranean-climate coastlines to be overrun by landslides, earthquakes, and volcanos is half the reason we still even have this stuff
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