> I know there are still free spirits in San Franciso, but as someone who was born in San Francisco I can tell you the city is completely changed.
I hear this all the time from people who have nothing to do with the movements that are happening right now. San Francisco has changed, Burning Man has sold out, activist art is dead, blah blah blah.
Meanwhile insiders don't give a shit, because they're making the culture you're waxing nostalgic about. It's a culture of doing and claiming nobody is doing something is just another excuse not to do something yourself. You don't know what art is happening in San Francisco because you've made yourself an outsider by not participating. People aren't going to go out of their way to include you: why would they? You're not one of the doers.
I hear this all the time from people who have nothing to do with the movements that are happening right now. San Francisco has changed, Burning Man has sold out, activist art is dead, blah blah blah.
Meanwhile insiders don't give a shit, because they're making the culture you're waxing nostalgic about. It's a culture of doing and claiming nobody is doing something is just another excuse not to do something yourself. You don't know what art is happening in San Francisco because you've made yourself an outsider by not participating. People aren't going to go out of their way to include you: why would they? You're not one of the doers.