California in ruins; I blame the dominant ideology of the Whole Earth Catalog

*Uh, well, sorta. Take it away, Kazys Varnelis:

http://varnelis.net/blog/complexity_and_contradiction_in_infrastructure

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"But a Californicated America would have no room for public infrastructural spending. Instead, the exemplary infrastructures of the 1980s and 1990s—telecoms after deregulation, the mobile phones, the Internet—are privatized. Here, Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron describe the legitimizing narrative for such ventures as the Californian Ideology, a union of hippie...