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Cities and Ambition
I recently reread this Paul Graham essay [ https://www.paulgraham.com/cities.html ]. It’s about what messages individual places send their inhabitants vis-a-vis which ambitions are good.... Austin is so strange. There’s a kool-aid here that strangely perpetuates until it’s not really a koolaid anymore: be interesting, be friendly, make friends, have fun. I think all the people moving here keeps a constant state of excitement and openness.... - antonbrevde...
As cities like Austin cater to coastal transplants, their unique culture gets diluted, becoming more generic. Is cultural entropy inevitable, or is there a counterforce?
As cities like Austin cater to coastal transplants, their unique culture gets diluted, becoming more generic. Is cultural entropy inevitable, or is there a counterforce? The canary in the coal mine for me is the yuppie coffee shop (which admittedly I love).... I love this question of who is "responsible," (although I wonder if there's a framing issue in the first place). And whenever I see this kind of divide: As I research the issue I can see that this comes up frequently.... Thanks for these reflections. I think about how things get lost to history a fair bit. I used to be so shocked at the way whole buildings get built on top of in old cities, like how does that happen? Whole bridges have been discovered in London....