Lex comments a lot about San Francisco. But he completely misunderstands it. As do most people who stay there fir a few years and make their judgments. If you simply look at the policies and initiatives and ideas that have come out of San Francisco and New York that have spread around the world over the last 250 years, clearly there is something beyond temporal that is happening. Compare that to cities like Chicago and Austin etc. who only occasionally make positive contributions. Whenever a place like Austin becomes popular people like Lex and Elon go there. Then everyone else, the followers, go there. The hot cool place thats young and happening. But those new people are the kind that follow trends. They follow the loud music. Then after a few years, they impose their own ideas and values in that place. They complain about the loud music, pass laws that change the place into what they think is better but simply conforms to the standards of the place they came from before they moved. San Francisco and New York has and always has had a rough edge. Just because it doesn’t kiss your ass doesn’t mean it’s lost its cool. It means it still has it. It has always had outsiders complain about it. And has welcomed those who persevere their freedom. It is only later in hindsight that the pushback is seen by all as what was as necessary to maintain it’s innovative nature again and again what is essential to the maintenance of freedoms and new ideas. Austins’ welcoming nature may seem good to newcomers and Lex but it will in the end be it’s downfall because it can not fight those who come for the loud music only to make everyone turn the music down when they get old or tired. If Austin is to endure like San Francisco endures. it must push back. Like Sf and NY does. It must continuously not listen to those who say it was once soft, it has changed, its greatness will past. Because it must know it wasn’t , it hasn’t and it won’t. Only then, when it can fight its critics, not simply welcome only its fanboys, will it be a great city.
Tom |
Placerville, CA |
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