SELFIES & Selfish Behavior

I admit I am getting old.  At 55 years of age, I am not intrigued nor very interested in "Selfies."  Perhaps I should be.  Everyone else seems to be on the Selfie bandwagon.  In November, 2013 the Oxford English Dictionary named "selfie" as the "word of the year."  It's the ultimate symbol of this narcissistic age in which we live.

I don't appreciate the "It's all about me" age in which people think they can do whatever they want, and that the rules of society don't apply to them.  I live near Griffith Park and there is a leash law in the park, which is blatantly disobeyed.  Easily 70 percent of the people who walk their dogs up Bronson Canyon have their dogs off leash.

And just when I thought I've seen it all re park behavior and activities.....

Sometime during the middle of the night, Monday June 29th, a group of renegade artists brought into the park a beautiful 80 square foot tea house.  The park trails are closed at night, but the artists paid no mind to the rules and regulations.

Folks hike up to see the tree house.
 

The view from inside the tea house looking out

People have been making the pilgrimage to check out the tea house and pay their respects.  Hundreds, if not thousands have come.  Supposedly, the city will allow the tea house to remain until July 27th.  The future of the tea house remains to be seen.  There has been talk it will be relocated to another location, possibly within Griffith Park or another park.   

Beautiful as the house is, I believe this sets a dangerous precedent of allowing people to do whatever they want in the Park.  At least the tea house has not been tagged  (yet.)