California's Product is Edge
A long ignored solo commodity...
They had it in their genes, as it were. Sons of the pioneers. The Native Americans came from the north, the Hispanic Americans with Native American mixed in came from the South, the European Americans came from the East, and the Oriental Americans and others like the Islander Americans came from the West. They all inherited the ability, at least supposedly, to step out of the old and into the new. Maybe that's a bit too idealistic, but it's a great way to begin an article.
But what I'm talking about is something that is neither goods nor services. It's the ability to come up with some thing, quality, aspect, idea, or functionality that is absolutely new. Now California certainly doesn't have the monopoly on that innovation, but for some reason, perhaps the climate, things have gotten off to an auspicious start here and in many cases have kept their momentum, like the Jet Propulsion Laboratories, and Silicon Valley, which used the semiconductor to such great advantage before they sort of stopped innovating which was the main cause of the ignominious bursting of the dot com bubble of the late 1990's. It was the dot com before the storm.
Actually semiconductors were getting their start in places like Danbury, Connecticut, made famous by their botching-up of the space telescope mirror. But then the edge ended up in places like Silicon Valley and even here in San Diego, among other things, noted for it's medical technology.
Now California has another great product: coast. It's almost all coast with some mountains on the other side. The gate-way to the rest of the U.S.A. from the Pacific. It's probably the most usable coast of any body politic in relation to it's size except perhaps Chili in relation to it's land mass. But no one else has the golden gate. The temperate ports that never freeze.
But back to the "edge" mystery. The California edge is the homogenous society. The competition is still on this purity kick and although they deserve a break, they won't last long. No one race has everything in it's genetic history that it takes. But if they can work in tandem, "homogeneously", as it were, they can pass all possible expectations.
You see, with the real international product, it's the inimitable that is what really counts. Everything can be imitated and perhaps often the imitation is in more ways better than the original. But it's the edge factor; the original that continues to be original at regular and rapid and incessant intervals that keeps the clientele.
You see, the other nations will never figure that out, because of racism. Each race approaches the workplace with it's own unique problems and that's all the racist sees. It's part of the mystery I was discussing in my Sociology section called "The Predators of Man", or the predan factor.
When the biomass tends to majoritize itself in one organism form such as the human being, the predators start taking their form in other ways than mere organics. Like this ethnic cleansing or genocide phenomenon. It's more than sociological, it's economic. All it takes is the slightest difference and humans are destroying each other, but their predator is extrahuman.
So if human society can circumvent the "predator" factor that "uses" racistic humanicide as a tool of predation, even if such a predator doesn't really exist but is nevertheless real in the sense observed in instances of genocide and so on, the group that circumvents this predatory barrier and comes to the realization that, in spite of setbacks in each racial group, each racial entrant is an essential contribution to the team effort then that "homogenous society" will excel by leaps and bounds. The Germans are a good example of this in the last century. They were a homogenous society of Nordic European and Mongolian mixtures.
In most ways, California has just about passed that barrier. So there it is. The Golden Gate Edge. But wait. You better act fast. It's vanishing. Californians think that walnuts and pecans are what the international customers want. Talk about nut cases! Those can now be grown just about anywhere. They could be grown in Antarctica, for crying out loud! Get real.
Oh you don't think so? The best commodity of Antarctica (at least for now) is wind. The wind could drive acres of subterranean caverns full of special enlarged Bonsai orchards. By living underground, the Antarcticans can even satisfy the self-righteous conservationists who are bent on destroying nature completely by conserving it to death.
But even if there weren't pecans from Antarctica (plus all that free refrigeration), the Californians are really missing the boat, here. Except for the Long Beach facility that's upgraded recently. But the edge is the people of the homogenous society filling up the UCal education system, made free and enlarged to accommodate a hundred times more students.
An edge that could be soon lost. What's happened? The predan factor again. This time in the form of economic predation such as the late 20th century electricity debacle and other things such as white collar crime. Plus many of the newer Californians are the do-nothing ultra rich that have moved in and taken over so the initiative has sort of shifted to a kind of real estate boom.
So now the edge is starting to move to places like Arizona. We shall see. It might pop up here again. The climate is nothing to be sneered at. This is the most perfect climate for human habitation I have ever experienced in my extensive world travels. The only thing that comes close to this is Sydney Australia. By the way, they've got Edge too. Not only do they have a homogenous society, but also they've got C.S.I.R.O.
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