The studio scene in California is sort of ridiculous anyway.
San Francisco is 49 square miles surrounded by reality.
You couldn't have fed the '50s into a computer and come out with the '60s.
You can't plan for the future, because some guy's going to land in a spaceship with three heads and a big beak and take over everything.
Life is change, how it differs from the rocks.
Maintain yourself and everything maintains itself around you.