Even Hollywood's gold can't stand up to the power of nature
2025-01-15 16:07:09
TiranaPost
The most destructive fire in Los Angeles history, described as such by President Joe Biden, continues to spread, displacing over 150,000 residents. The wealthy and famous have taken refuge in luxury hotels like the Beverly Hills Hotel, while ordinary citizens have found shelter with relatives or in makeshift shelters.
The sights are apocalyptic: columns of smoke darkening the horizon, the sky glowing red, green hills and dream villas now lying under layers of ash. The flames do not discriminate – they wipe out everything from popular palaces to billionaires' mansions.
And yet, in the news and on social media, it seems as if only the villas of Paris Hilton or Anthony Hopkins are burning. Their manicured gardens and magnificent swimming pools, now destroyed, strike us deeply, because they are part of a collective imagination that symbolizes the American dream. Los Angeles, the city where success always seems within reach, has now become a painful reminder that dreams can be as fragile as life itself.
This is a memento mori, a reflection on the transience of everything. Hollywood, known for the immortal image of its heroes, seems helpless in the face of the power of nature. And here they are – the actors and stars who often represent our fantasies and envy – stripped of privilege, human, defenseless in the face of an enemy that spares no one.
Perhaps it is this contrast that makes these fires touch us so deeply. They remind us that life is fragile and that, in the end, no one, not even the famous “Superman,” is untouchable in the land of dreams. Dreams are precious, but always fleeting!
*This article was published by bota.al and reposted by tiranapost.al
