In the great movie, the Caine Mutiny,
the magnificent Humphrey Bogart breaks down on the witness stand over
strawberries. His attempts to explain a missing key gets so
convoluted he winds up not even believing his own sanity.
It now appears that a case of Caaptain
Queegism has struck the lovely town of Palm Springs. The Agua
Caliente band of Indians has put 2 searchlights on top of their
casino. Oh the horrors. The lights are due to come down on the 15th.
For some reason this single act has
caused certain segments of Facebook to become filled with conspiracy
theories and reality detached speculation. Some poor citizen even had
to buy “black out” curtains to protect his home from the light of
beam shot into the sky. The only time I have ever seen “black out”
curtains is in an episode of Foyles War.
Our local paper is reporting that
people allied with the modernist community are also upset about the
beams. So let me shed some light on the matter.
In my opinion, the so-called light
pollution gate is not at all about the spotlights. You will not hear a
peep out of the complainants when spotlights are used for the White
Party for 3 days or for the Film Festival.
What this really is about is the
tribe's decision to tear down the Spa Hotel. People who are not used
to hearing no heard it then.
This sniping at the tribe is
counterproductive being based on the deadly combination of ignorance
and arrogance. The Agua Caliente tribe has been here for a lot longer
than the Palm Springs pseudo-hipster crowd. And probably will be for
a long time. And that is something you can spotlight.
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