Comment by marcus_holmes

What is it about San Francisco that makes it the global center for this stuff?

Reading this, I was reminded of the 60's hippy communes, that generally centered around SF, and the problems they reported. So similar, especially around that turning-inward group emotional dynamics problem, that such groups tend to become dysfunctional (as TFA says) by blowing up internal emotional group politics into huge problems that need the entire group to be involved in trying to heal (as opposed to, say, accepting that a certain amount of interpersonal conflict is inevitable in human groups and ignoring it). It's fascinating that the same kind of groups seem to encounter the same kind of problems despite being ~60 years apart and armed with a lot more tech and knowledge.

And, yeah, why SF?