The more general problem is how deference to the automobile has reduced other transportation options to second class status in the Bay Area and beyond. The legitimacy of institutions and the abuse of authority by members of them is a recurring theme. Every time we hear of police killing some unarmed person, we have to question by what authority the police kill and harass people. We agree with Noam Chomsky that all institutions of coercion have an obligation to justify their existence. The governmental interest in National Security might be oriented around a new set of principles.
Technology affects the lives of people living in the Bay Area.
Based on the idea that life ought to resolve around more that just the profit motive. What can wealthy people do to be helpful to those less fortunate. Death and Dying. Current events and public policy. The Internet has created a world that Big Media has a hard time monopolizing.