#yuppies — Public Fediverse posts

The #CalifornianIdeology:
"This new faith has emerged from a bizarre fusion of the cultural bohemianism of San Francisco with the hi-tech industries of #SiliconValley. Promoted in magazines, books, TV programmes, websites, newsgroups and Net conferences, the Californian Ideology promiscuously combines the free-wheeling spirit of the #hippies and the entrepreneurial zeal of the #yuppies. This amalgamation of opposites has been achieved through a profound faith in the emancipatory potential of the new information technologies. In the #digitalutopia, everybody will be both hip and rich. Not surprisingly, this optimistic vision of the future has been enthusiastically embraced by computer nerds, slacker students, innovative capitalists, social activists, trendy academics, futurist bureaucrats and opportunistic politicians across the USA."

http://www.imaginaryfutures.net/2007/04/17/the-californian-ideology-2/

this sucks, man.

https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2024/08/portland-police-expect-jail-to-be-big-part-of-their-response-to-new-law-recriminalizing-drug-possession.html

> Portland Police Chief Bob Day on Friday said he expects using police to address low-level drug possession will lead to a “high likelihood” that officers will have to use force in some arrests and that intoxicated people with significant medical conditions may die in custody.

#pdx #portland #oregon #PortlandOregon #orpol #pnw #warondrugs #m110 #measure110 #massincarceration #ppb #ppa #yuppies #acab #portlandpolice #societyhotel

#TheBigChill is a weirdly misunderstood movie. It is usually thought of as a gloryfication of the #BabyBoomers but the movie's central thesis might be the line:

> I'd hate to think it was all just ... fashion.

#LawrenceKasdan #Yuppies #Hippies