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🕑 Added 2019-07-04 22:27:10 +0000 UTCIn part three, we move from the Californian Ideology to talk about the Californian reality: class, suburbs and social mobility. We meet up with Joel Kotkin to discuss the new Californian class structure and the end of the Californian dream. Also, more bar chat, as friend of the podcast, Tim Abrahams, joins us to chat about the idea of LA, Californian urbanism and mobility.
#CaliBunga is a special multipart series on the Californian Ideology: the seemingly paradoxical hybrid of New Left and New Right ideas - the synthesis of hippies with yuppies, all tied together with the promise that technology might liberate us.
Thanks to UC Irvine School of Humanities for sponsoring this series.
Readings:
- The New Class Conflict, Joel Kotkin
- Californian Feudalism, Joel Kotkin
Comments
Eli S
I know I'm coming to this two years late, but you know, back around when this was released, I would really have kinda enjoyed being the "specter of uselessness". Sure, I get a tiny apartment and play video games all day, but that's not _so_ different from my real life where I get a small condo and a PMC cubicle job.
aagg
Kotkin really blows. He adapts leftist diagnoses of political breakdown but refuses to acknowledge costs of his halcyon highway based sfh system and the absurb tax regime that props it up; maligns attempts to fix it via investments in public transit, density, or public housing...
