11-17-2016, 03:24 PM
(11-17-2016, 12:58 PM)X_4AD_84 Wrote:(11-17-2016, 11:55 AM)Warren Dew Wrote: Diversity and acceptance of diversity sound nice, but unfortunately the whole point of a first turning is convergence of culture and elimination of diversity.
If that were true, places like North Beach and the North End would have been made milquetoast during the 1950s. Harlem would have been turned into "black in appearance only." Chinatowns nation wide would have been peopled by "bananas."
Oh wait. Didn't happen that way.
Sooooo .... maybe .... "elimination" is an exaggeration, no?
Warren has it pretty well correct on this, as I see it, but toward the end of the 1T, the 2T impulses begin to show themselves, at least on the fringes of society as in North Beach SF.
Just as much of the 2T revival of culture gets more and more relegated to the fringes as the 3T goes on.