Civic Center walking tour: the story it tells of civilization

Come along on a FREE walking tour celebrating San Francisco's Civic Center, whose institutions represent the eternal endeavor to claw back dignity after the advent of agriculture wreaked havoc with more nearly egalitarian communities.

As we perambulate the greater part of Civic Center, our theme is that private property in the Earth divorced humanity from sublime if daunting marriage with Pachamama. Once upon a time it was tribe within nature, competing oft-times with other tribes for access to provisions. But once the most of humanity settled down to cultivate the soil, landlordism arose, and with it alienation of most people from full intercourse with Gaia. Now it was the king, the court, the nobility, the gentlefolk who metered out access to gaining a livelihood from field, pasture, and forest.

This walk will connect the buildings of Civic Center, together with their namesakes, with the valiant if burdened endeavor to rematriate the general population with the power in the land. By walk's end you'll have made the acquaintance of San Francisco's Biggest Social Idea, socializing land values as an instrument of social justice. And there's a picnic, to boot.