This one counts as an epiphany — I was in Las Vegas for a few days, and felt on the edge of some kind of deep insight into America, but it hasn’t cleared up yet — but I’m in a traditional Italian cafe, watching a performance by a Chinese singer and a black guitarist, while another patron watches youtube videos on his laptop. The multiple levels of meaning are true in fact and true in metaphor at the same time: this place is like some ultimate bricolage. Genetic heritage is subject to cultural and personal values: technology intertwines with emotional and social needs.<\/p>\n
This is what San Francisco means<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0on some level — to both its residents and outsiders. This is the freedom of cultural movement that makes this city compelling<\/em>.<\/p>\n I feel like a big chunk of my understanding of this city has snapped into place. A long and winding chat with another customer here, Michele, also helped a lot. Many thanks, if you’re reading this \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n I’ll be putting up some notes on WWDC in the next few days, now that the dust has settled. I’ve been too busy doing things to write about them, but I feel like it’s a good time to pull the threads together at the moment. Maybe that’s the caffeine speaking. We shall see!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This one counts as an epiphany — I was in Las Vegas for a few days, and felt on the edge of some kind of deep insight into America, but it hasn’t cleared up yet — but I’m in a traditional Italian cafe, watching a performance by a Chinese singer and a black guitarist, while […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p715w6-a","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/luketoop.com\/epiphanies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/luketoop.com\/epiphanies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/luketoop.com\/epiphanies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luketoop.com\/epiphanies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luketoop.com\/epiphanies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/luketoop.com\/epiphanies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/luketoop.com\/epiphanies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luketoop.com\/epiphanies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luketoop.com\/epiphanies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}