i was trained as and then worked as a graphic photographer. Why aren't the top on to preners of silican valley more interested in the visual arts? I've no idea. Hippies in general were not very good on the visual arts, except for comics. And i'm glad i got apple stock, because i knew steve jobbs,. so what do you think is missing in silican valley because of this lack of interest in the visual Arts? Jobs is id well, you and i both know patrick hollison, and i see patrick as whenever anybody says something kind of disparaging about silican valley and tech bro and so on he's sort of t personally
From psychedelics to cyberculture, hippie communes to commercial startups, and the Whole Earth Catalog to the Long Now Foundation, Stewart Brand has not only been a part of many movements—he was there at the start. Now 83, he says he doesn’t understand why older people let their curiosity fade, when in many ways it’s the best time to set off on new intellectual pursuits.
Tyler and Stewart discuss what drives his curiosity, including the ways in which he’s a product of the Cold War, how he became a Darwinian decentralist, the effects of pre-industrial America on his thought, the subcultural convergences between hippies and younger American Indians, why he doesn’t think humans will be going to the stars, his two-minded approach to unexplained phenomena, how L.L. Bean inspired the Whole Earth Catalog, why Silicon Valley entrepreneurs don’t seem interested in the visual arts, why L.A. could not have been the home of hippie culture and digital innovation, what libertarians don’t understand about government, why we should bring back woolly mammoths, why he’s now focused on maintenance and institutions, and more.
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Recorded January 3rd, 2022 Other ways to connect