There's that thing about the '80s, the '40s and the '60s, and the '30s, the '50s and the '70s. Something about those odd decades in this century that weren't too pleasant.
San Francisco is 49 square miles surrounded by reality.
The starship thing is really political action and reaction, the natural outgrowth of Volunteers.
The studio scene in California is sort of ridiculous anyway.
If you can remember anything about the sixties, you weren't really there.
It's a lot of random situations that combine in a certain volatile form and create a bigger-than- the-whole situation that nobody could have predicted.