SF is small, rich and hyper-competitive, so if you want to stand out you have to scream above the din. This has been the case for many decades, and it extends to various movements, on every side (the SF progs and DSA types are not exactly reserved). But then you get back to SF, and it's just a fact that SF (where I grew up) has a really toxic political culture. The DC people were all federal policy nerds.
The Seattle people were more passive aggressive. The Boulder people were all academic climate change types. As I went around the country for this book (despite having rooted it in the Bay Area, I traveled pretty widely) I found YIMBYism had a sort of similar parallel. It was controversial in some corners because he made a bunch of jokes about how Germans like poop, but I thought the concept was clever.Īnyway.
Years ago Michael Lewis wrong this great book called Boomerang, and the premise of it was that the fallout of the 2008 financial crisis and subsequent recession had revealed something fundamental about various world cultures. Hey! Huge question that I spent a lot of time thinking about.
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