Spontaneous & chaotic --) ordered > commercial & hyped
I've seen, and lived in, this progression time and time again.
Berkeley 1959, before the Free Speech Movement, home to an extraordinary and creative street life ... becoming politicized and ordered ... becoming gentrified.
The World Wide Web, late 80s and early 90s, wide open and exciting ... becoming ordered and catalogued ... becoming a 24/7 shopping mall and leader in the triumph of opinion over knowledge.
The profit motive is the great destroyer of institutions honoring the inner life.
I've seen, and lived in, this progression time and time again.
Berkeley 1959, before the Free Speech Movement, home to an extraordinary and creative street life ... becoming politicized and ordered ... becoming gentrified.
The World Wide Web, late 80s and early 90s, wide open and exciting ... becoming ordered and catalogued ... becoming a 24/7 shopping mall and leader in the triumph of opinion over knowledge.
The profit motive is the great destroyer of institutions honoring the inner life.
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