San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities

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San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities is a recurring book in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between May 24, 2022 and June 23, 2022. The archive places it in contexts such as “His book San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities”; “And in a book called San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities”. It most often appears alongside California, Gavin Newsom, Los Angeles.

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  • Category: Books
  • Mention count: 2
  • Issue count: 2
  • First seen: May 24, 2022
  • Last seen: June 23, 2022

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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

May 24, 2022 · Original source
The latest step in his intellectual evolution is his book San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities, which points out all the rampant crime and drug use and homelessness and garbage in SF and says maybe some of these things are bad (the New York Times wrote a negative review here).
June 23, 2022 · Original source
Maybe something like: these are profound psychological truths, but their failure mode is to be reduced to preachiness and haranguing. And in a book called San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities, there’s almost no way not to have them sound like preachiness and haranguing. It’s like how calling out injustice and highlighting the cruelty of those who ignore the less fortunate is all nice and well when Victor Hugo does it - but if the book is by Rachel Maddow, I am just going to skip those parts.