[falcor84]

You can say a lot of negative things about it, but it's most definitely not a "micro" bubble. The ideological influence of the US West Coast on the world at large during the past century has been de-facto defining much of the global culture, even if you limit it to just Hollywood and the Silicon Valley.

A world that were to shrug off this influence would be, for better or worse, fundamentally different.

[cstross]

Not only am I not Californian, I'm not American: I'm a left-wing Scot living in Edinburgh.

[PeterStuer]

That's what I deserve for just quickly skimming an article on the trone on my phone.

I guess the gratuitous Trump trope succeeded trowing me off a more nuanced reading.

Mb.