Are You Asking for a Worse Neighborhood?

Venice might be the North American capital for woo-woo practices, but hear us out. The world is changing dramatically for the better and for the worse. There’s plenty of folks talking about “manifesting” in the neighborhood, so at the risk of being lumped in with the fringe of that scene let me say this:

We’ve got to create the world we want. 

If you want music and art and small businesses that create unique environments to survive, we’ve got to make them survive. I won’t tell you how to spend your money, but I’ve got to wonder how anyone can give Starbucks money when there are people who live in the neighborhood who have risked real money to make coffee that they actually care about, for example. 

If you hate that your favorite restaurants are closing one by one, how could you possibly eat at a corporate establishment? 

We will get the neighborhoods and societies we ask for and if we keep asking for a vanilla homogeneous society that is exactly the world we will live in. Use your money and your feet to make the world great, guys and gals.