Seattle Now: The Lab Created Emerald City
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9/27/2020
Seattle used to offer something for everyone be it tech professionals; blue, pink and white collar workers, artsy types, social outcasts, homeless runaways seeking refuge, hard working immigrants, refugees and so on. However, that has given way to the dark side of these aforementioned groups due to poor leadership and divestment. I do not seek out to demonize anybody because life is about finding solutions. But the truth must be said.
This may be the Emerald City, but people forget that emeralds are soft semi-precious gemstones that can become dull, crack and break easily. Man made emeralds are like moissanites and Herkimer diamonds: they can easily fool the unlearned and disguise the obvious. Seattle has traded their spirit, culture and associated icons to build a technocracy and corporatocracy that merely filters and recycles their heritage back to itself like a hologram and sell back to them what was originally free to and for all. That is what I see happened to Seattle.
S. | West Haven-Sylvan, OR