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Andreesen credits the rise of Silicon Valley to capitalist, center-left Democrats like Al Gore. And also he speaks of the Californian Ideology—the mix of capitalism and hippie counterculture diagnosed by Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron. I recently co-edited a special issue on the topic: https://www.colorado.edu/lab/medlab/2023/08/15/special-issue-afterlives-californian-ideology

The contradiction is in that convergence.