[HN Gopher] The Largest Human Zoo in World History
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The Largest Human Zoo in World History
Author : Petiver
Score : 22 points
Date : 2020-04-23 06:20 UTC (16 hours ago)
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| adamc wrote:
| Disturbing. As it should be.
| sillysaurusx wrote:
| _The 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis is remembered by some as the
| high-water mark of the city's history--the moment when all the
| world was assembled in tribute to the city's greatness, the
| moment at the crest of the rise, before the beginning of the long
| decline._
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| Suppose SF were at the beginning of a long decline. What would
| the signs be, specifically?
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| It seems an interesting question for a few reasons. SF is one of
| the most influential cities in the world; the question
| generalizes to SV rather than SF; and COVID has forced a lot of
| non-remote ideas to suddenly become remote (e.g. YC batches).
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| If you were teleported back to 1904 and viewed St Louis in all
| its glory, what signs would you see that would make you go "This
| place will become much less relevant within a couple
| generations"? Are those signs applicable to today's cities? (They
| may not be, and perhaps likely aren't - but it seems worth
| studying.)
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| I grew up in the St Louis area. The intro of this article was
| shocking, because the world now certainly wouldn't assemble in
| tribute to the greatness of St Louis. It makes you wonder: which
| other powerful cities soon won't be? Regions? Institutions? Why -
| and are there useful correlations between the categories?
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