My culture is that of a progressive Bay Area liberal, who’s the child of immigrants. It’s under threat, but it’s also constantly changing, and shifting based on

My culture is that of a progressive Bay Area liberal, who’s the child of immigrants. It’s under threat, but it’s also constantly changing, and shifting based on the global socioeconomic circumstances. Admittedly, I’d be pretty unhappy if someone wanted to take my house away without compensation. If someone got rid of a place a visited often, I’d be unhappy, but would I stop them? No. I think from my childhood, the only two places that are still around that I visit are the Exploratorium, and Golden Gate Park — both dramatically changed over the past few decades. If someone said, sorry, we’ve gotta pave over GGP to build an observatory to further US science, and we can build it here, China, or Russia — I would be unhappy, but understanding. I guess, I understand why these people are unhappy, in a general sense, but I can’t reconcile that with the fact that they’re impeding scientific progress, and putting US science behind.