Victor Davis Hanson: How DEI Caused a Multifaceted ‘Systems Breakdown’ in Los Angeles

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🗓️ 14 January 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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In this edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” Hanson, author of “The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation,” explores the systematic failures plaguing Los Angeles as it attempts to put out devastating wildfires. From diversity, equity, and inclusion dilemmas to regulatory failures, see how this extreme ideology impacts good governance. “We have a $700,000-a-year utilities czar in Los Angeles, and she cannot explain why there was not enough water, at least in a convincing way—because she's never had to, because she was ideologically correct.” “You have an assistant fire chief who said, ‘If women can't—if I can't carry out a man [from a burning building], then that's not on me. It's the man who shouldn't be there.’ It's like saying if a child fell down a well and I'm not physically strong enough to retrieve him and save him, that's his fault. He shouldn't have been in the well.” “In the Los Angeles catastrophe, there are whole areas of imperial inquiry that are put off limits. You cannot talk about the homeless and whether there was a homeless person who was out in the hills, [and] to get warm, lighted a fire. It's a legitimate topic of inquiry. It's happened. You can't talk about.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:28.7	The system becomes so complex that very few people operated
0:34.5	and when those people are incompetent
0:36.6	and they tend to be bureaucratic and ossified,
0:39.9	calcified, the entire system is so dependent upon them, it collapses. That's what we're seeing in Los Angeles.
0:45.5	It is a multifaceted breakdown. It's a diversity, equity, inclusion. This is what I want to get to
0:51.1	because people, that's the most controversial.
1:07.0	Thank you. this is what I want to get to because people, that's the most controversial. Hello, this is Victor Davis-Hanson for the Daily Signal. We're into about the fourth or fifth day of the Los Angeles fires, and people
1:13.6	are commenting on the complete systems breakdown. It's a word that sociologists, historians,
1:20.6	and archaeologists use systems breakdown, but also systems collapse, the collapse of complex societies,
1:26.6	for example, the Mycinians and others.
1:30.3	But it's the idea that the system becomes so complex that very few people operate it,
1:37.3	and when those people are incompetent, and they tend to be bureaucratic and ossified,
1:43.3	then the entire system is so dependent upon them, it collapses.
1:48.6	That's what we're seeing in Los Angeles.
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