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Silicon Valley grew out of 1960s counterculture, which gets pretty close to „bleeding heart melting pot“. The other examples strike as somewhat peculiar, and p
by IfOnlyYouKnew 6y ago
Silicon Valley grew out of 1960s counterculture, which gets pretty close to „bleeding heart melting pot“.
The other examples strike as somewhat peculiar, and probably not anybody’s idea of the Ideal, innovative city.
- Barrin92 6y agoCalifornian counterculture today still has a self image of diversity but in reality it has its roots in a very like-minded white, middle-class bohemian culture, which is not coincidentally the exact class that dominates tech. Counter-culture later merged together with business into what was called the 'Californian ideology' in the 90s, and while it has this sort of melting pot burning man aesthetic going for it, intellectually it is incredibly homogeneous, extremely distinct from the rest of the US, and politically streamlined. Counter-cultures almost always are paradoxically 'melting-pots' of insanely like-minded people, the stubbornness is what makes them so effective. Once counter-culture starts to bleed into the mainstream (the actually diverse population) it dissipates.
- rayiner 6y agoWhat? It grew out of the defense industry and California Republicanism: https://www.desertsun.com/story/opinion/columnists/2019/10/24/republicans-shaped-california-so-why-do-they-loathe-today-joe-mathews-connecting-california/4091330002/ https://www.desertsun.com/story/opinion/columnists/2019/10/2...