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Thursday Jul 04, 2019
Thursday Jul 04, 2019
In 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
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This Joel guy is such a fucking petit-bourgeois boomer dipshit, you guys can't possibly take this stuff seriously right? What kind of brain rot does it take to complain about housing affordability and congestion, and also be against density? And on top of that, suburbs and cars are good for the environment? I want some of what this guy is smoking. "Middle class people want suburbs" is such a dumb take, it's pure ideology disguised as leftism (with some implicit racism thrown in). If you ask people on the street they also don't want socialism. As leftists we have to find ways to make palatable to people what the material reality necessitates. In this case that would be dense, environmentally efficient development, public transit, and a reduction in personal car use.
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