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bruce has clearly never driven down californias potholed highways, admired its last-in-the-nation literacy rate from public education, or pontificated on its un
by nimbius 4y ago
bruce has clearly never driven down californias potholed highways, admired its last-in-the-nation literacy rate from public education, or pontificated on its unaffordable gilded ponzi schemes posing as higher education. the unchecked farm irrigation has reduced the state to a perpetually drought plagued desert...it single handedly created the toxic salton sea and reduced borrego springs to a sand scorched purgatory. high speed rail is a boondoggled turd no politician can seem to keep from screwing up despite their californian ideological proclivities
tech worship isnt preventing free speech, its the tech companies this article ostensibly sings praise to.
reproduction of neoslavery isnt the biggest issue thats just late stage capitalism. its the persistent failure at any level of the californian ideology to do anything to correct it for the past forty years thats a damning indictment of its proposition
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- Apocryphon 4y agoYou and the author are not in disagreement in the critique of the ideology. > However, by championing this seemingly admirable ideal, these techno-boosters are at the same time reproducing some of the most atavistic features of American society, especially those derived from the bitter legacy of slavery. Their utopian vision of California depends upon a wilful blindness towards the other — much less positive — features of life on the West Coast: racism, poverty and environmental degradation.[5] Ironically, in the not too distant past, the intellectuals and artists of the Bay Area were passionately concerned about these issues.