The Beatniks; The Summer of Love. The Grateful Dead; Janis Joplin; and many, many others are all cultural touchstones of several generations of Americans and largely products of San Francisco.
Many of today’s looser sexual mores got their start or took root in San Francisco, particularly around lgbtq issues.
Sure, 90% of everything is crap, including San Francisco culture, but that last ten percent is a very big deal and the only reason it seems less so today is because it is so pervasive. Whereas it wasn’t before SF and environs produced it.
Those are all culture adders I'd agree, my case is that those are many decades old, and the newer generation you're likely to meet are just a sort of cheap shell of what was, and there hasn't been much cultural innovation, for lack of a better word.
Yes, but the hope (I assume) is that an affordable SF will lead to the next generation of those cultural touchstones. 90% will be crap, but the 10% again... changing culture in America.
Will this happen? Who knows, but SF has generations of influence behind it.
Many of today’s looser sexual mores got their start or took root in San Francisco, particularly around lgbtq issues.
Sure, 90% of everything is crap, including San Francisco culture, but that last ten percent is a very big deal and the only reason it seems less so today is because it is so pervasive. Whereas it wasn’t before SF and environs produced it.